Version: (using Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources OS: Linux KMail in KDE 4.1 Beta1 does not display most Japanese mails, which are in iso-2022-jp. The encoding is not auto-detected and I cannot manually select it since Japanese is not among the encoding list. It cannot be added to charsets for composing either. KMail complains that this charset is not supported. I hope it is not true...
For me, the encoding menu contains three different Japanese encodings: EUC-JP, jis7 and sjis. I'm not familiar with Japanese encodings, but isn't one of those two jis encodings aquivivalent to iso-2022-jp? And you said that when reading some mails, the encoding is not auto-detected. Can you have a look at the mail headers? Is the correct charset in the Content-Type header set? If the header doesn't contain the correct charset, KMail tries to use the system encoding, but that might not work for some reason. I also tried composing a Japanese mail (I used the keyboard layout switcher with the Japan (jp/kana) layout, not sure if that is correct). The mail was encoded in UTF8 with a base64 content-transfer-encoding, which seems to be correct. I tried to manually setting the encoding for composing to jis7, and that did indeed not work, it was sent as UTF8 instead. I'll try to find out why.
I read jis7 was the same as iso-2022-jp. Most Japanese mails (not some) I receive are encoded in iso-2022-jp and have the correct charset in the header. In fact, I can read the same mails without having to change the encoding from "Auto" in KDE3. I can compose Japanese mails in UTF-8 but have to use iso-2022-jp for Japanese mailing lists. Otherwise, archived mails are garbled. >I tried to manually setting the encoding for composing to jis7, and that did indeed not work Is it related to bug #162797 I reported against Konqueror?
SVN commit 814546 by tmcguire: Actually use the encoding specified in the composer. CCBUG: 162707 M +1 -1 kmcomposewin.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=814546
Can you send or forward me a mail encoded with iso-2022-jp, please? (to thomas.mcguire at gmx dot net)
I sent one with "Test message in iso-2022-jp" in the subject line. Has it reached you?
The problem was I did not have libqjpcodecs.so installed on my system. Now I can read Japanese mails in KDE4. :) Sorry for the noise!