Bug 79767

Summary:	Replies to HTML letters contain "invisible" 0x9A symbols
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	mi+kde
Component:	messageviewer	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.6.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	FreeBSD
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description mi+kde 2004-04-16 19:45:46 UTC

Version:           1.6.1 (using KDE 3.2.1, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.3 [FreeBSD] 20031106
OS:          FreeBSD (i386) release 5.2-CURRENT

This seems to happen, when I'm replying to HTML messages, which are quoted by KMail.

KMail launches my external editor (xterm -e vi), which starts misbehaving due to invisible characters.

Today I took the trouble to analyze the file opened in the external editor using biew (a binary editor). It shows, the quotation symbol is the first on the line, than -- instead of the blank space, there are three symbols 0x9A. After that -- the visible sentence starts.

Comment 1 Philip Rodrigues 2006-10-29 18:29:56 UTC

Does this problem still occur for you in the latest KMail?

Comment 2 mi+kde 2006-10-31 16:06:13 UTC

Just checked with KDE-3.5.5. Yes, the problem is still here... And, actually, it is not limited to HTML messages. I just observed it replying to the usual TEXT/HTML combo (KMail shows the text part by default).

Comment 3 Thomas McGuire 2007-08-12 13:15:58 UTC

This also happens when copying and pasting something from the message.

Comment 4 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 10:18:43 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.