Bug 118179

Summary:	Wrong 8-bit subject show with correct Content-Type
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	Andrey Cherepanov <sibskull>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.9
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Andrey Cherepanov 2005-12-12 14:07:53 UTC

Version:           1.9 (using KDE 3.5.0, compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.9-1.667smp

I get email with headers:
...
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset=KOI8-R;
  format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
...
Subject: [Qt] "горячие клавиши"
...

KDE with locale ru_RU.UTF-8. KMail show text correct but cyrillic in subject line is shown as squares. Does KMail handle charset in Content-Type: correct?

Comment 1 Thiago Macieira 2005-12-14 22:43:30 UTC

Subject: lines MUST be 7-bit ASCII. Anything else is a bug, so please be sure to report this bug to the mailer that sent that message.

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

Comment 2 Andrey Cherepanov 2005-12-15 07:40:21 UTC

According RFC 822:
"3.1.2.  STRUCTURE OF HEADER FIELDS":
"The field-body may be composed of any ASCII characters, except CR or LF."

In what RFC is it defined 7-bit ASCII ?

Comment 3 Maksim Orlovich 2005-12-15 07:43:13 UTC

ASCII is by definition 7-bit

Comment 4 Thiago Macieira 2005-12-15 11:23:32 UTC

There is an open report about having KMail decode the 8-bit headers with the body's encoding. That's bug 95157, which I marked this report a duplicate of.

Even so, it doesn't make the 8-bit headers any less buggy. Please report to the sender that his mailer is broken and should be fixed, as per RFC 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048, 2049 and 2822.