Version: (using KDE 3.5.9) Installed from: Mandriva RPMs Mandriva Bugreport : https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=39011 it seems KDE PIM doesn't handle non-ASCII characters in imported contact names well. I determined through testing that this has nothing to do with Windows Mobile in particular. Syncing such a contact from WM to Evolution works fine. You can reproduce the bug quite easily: install Evolution install KDE create a contact in Evolution whose name includes non-ASCII characters - è and ö were the ones I tested with install kdepim-kitchensync , libopensync-plugin-evolution2 and libopensync-plugin-kdepim run KitchenSync create a new sync group with Evolution and KDE-PIM plugins synchronize the contact will be synchronized from Evolution to KDE. When you run kaddressbook, you'll see that the non-ASCII characters in the contact's name are not correctly displayed.
I can confirm this. I recently updated from KDE 3.5.1 to 3.5.9 and got two bugs. The one invalidating all the groupware features. I had to run kolabwizard to fixit... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdepim/+bug/14309 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdepim/+bug/139433 but now I have this one. I can access my contacts again but any non-ascii character into my contacts are shown as small boxes (maybe ascii 255 or 254). If I read the raw dimap message from kmail I got this header: Content-Type: Text/X-VCard; charset="utf-8" and the contact body is shown correctly, non-ascii characters included. The same happens if I add a new contact and write non-ascii characters (internationalized characters). This worked fine in KDE 3.5.1.
I can confirm this. It's somewhat frustrating. The good news is that it's only a display problem. I checked in the IMAP folder, it's indeed unicode. And Thunderbird (+SyncKolab) display them correctly (well, the unicode characters of the recognized entries at least).
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Confirmed on Debian Lenny (kde 3.5.9) and Hardy Heron (kde 3.5.10). vCard display from the Contacts folder in kmail is incorrect. Auto fetching of addresses is corrupted in kmail composer. Display of the Contacts in kaddressbook is incorrect. Creation of a new contact seems to work correctly (at least in Debian Lenny). I have the IMAP groupware folder language set to english. What is the significance of this setting?
Confirming on Gentoo with KDE 3.5.9. After syncing with Windows Mobile device using SynCE I get non-ASCII charactes corrupted in kaddressbook. Let's vote for this one since it makes KDE PIM unusable for now... source patch for KDE 3.5.9 would be nice.
The development of the old KAddressBook will be discontinued for KDE 4.4. Since the new application has the same name, but a completly new code base we close all bug reports against the old version and ask the submitters to resend there reports against the new product.