Bug 105357

Summary:	wrong charset in mail subject
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	GML <gmludo>
Component:	GUI	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description GML 2005-05-09 17:21:41 UTC

Version:           inconnu (using KDE 3.4.0, Debian Package 4:3.4.0-0ubuntu3 (3.1))
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.10-5-686

In main window of kmail, the characters in subject with different encoding that the system aren't correctly showed. 

See the screenshot below.

Comment 1 GML 2005-05-09 17:35:23 UTC

Created attachment 10964 [details]
bug screenshot

Comment 2 GML 2005-05-09 17:36:47 UTC

I use Kubuntu 5.04 with utf8 charset

Comment 3 Thiago Macieira 2005-05-11 05:50:45 UTC

They seem to be the same charset in both panes, according to your screenshot. Can you paste the Subject: line from the email's source?

Comment 4 GML 2005-05-12 09:33:47 UTC

the Subject: line from the email's source:

Subject: LA NEWSLETTER "Hygiène et Qualité" HOSPIMEDIA  n°41

I haven't characters problems

Comment 5 Thiago Macieira 2005-05-12 13:28:54 UTC

Is that what you see when you View Source? Or did you type that? Because if it's like that in the header, it's invalid (violates RFC 2047).

Better yet, can you save the email to a file, zip it and attach here?

Comment 6 GML 2005-05-12 18:53:29 UTC

"Subject: LA NEWSLETTER "Hygiène et Qualité" HOSPIMEDIA  n°41"
It's I see when view source of this email.
It's like that.
For source code mail, it's a mail with a payed subscription, I publish only mail header.

Comment 7 Thiago Macieira 2005-05-13 05:07:25 UTC

The header is invalid. RFC 2047 describes how to encode non-ASCII characters in headers. Whoever wrote this newsletter of yours didn't read the RFC.

KMail isn't at fault here.

Comment 8 GML 2005-05-18 11:57:44 UTC

I'm in agreement with you, but I receive some e-mails with same problem.
Most newsletters/automatic emails with special characters don't respect this, because the web programmers don't know this RFC.
I inform web programmers this problem but I've no response.
It's a good idea if it's possible to define a another charset for mail headers that charset of system.
This problem is important for the non-english users with UTF-8 distribution, because most web applications send mails with iso characters without declare  the charset. KMail isn't at fault here, but users will think that it's KMail it doesn't work correctly.

Comment 9 Thiago Macieira 2005-05-18 13:16:44 UTC

I'm taking the liberty of merging your "wish" (for that's what it is, since it's no bug) with this one report I've found. So far it seems to be the best option available for properly decoding 8-bit Subjects.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 95157 ***