Bug 124169

Summary:	Encoding not detected correctly in message viewer
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	Marc Collin <marc.collin>
Component:	messageviewer	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	231036448, kollix
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	Message with character detection problem

Description Marc Collin 2006-03-24 06:17:04 UTC

Version:           1.2 (using KDE 3.5.1 Level "a" , SUSE 10.1)
Compiler:          Target: x86_64-suse-linux
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.16-rc6-git1-4-default

kontact use automatic character encoding.
often when i receive email, kontact seem to detect it like utf-8 but people write me with iso-8859-1

i don't character like: é,è,ô,û,ç......

Comment 1 Philip Rodrigues 2006-03-24 12:18:29 UTC

Settings->Configure Kmail -> Appearance -> Message Window -> Fallback Character Encoding.

Is it set to iso-8859?

Comment 2 Thiago Macieira 2006-03-27 23:29:18 UTC

Please go to one such email in KMail, Ctrl+S and save to disk. Then zip it and attach it here.

KMail isn't supposed to detect encoding in emails. Emails MUST say which encoding they are in. Anything else is broken email.

Comment 3 Philip Rodrigues 2006-09-08 11:40:33 UTC

Feedback timeout. If you have responses to comments #1 and #2, please reopen. Thanks

Comment 4 Marc Collin 2006-09-08 14:36:14 UTC

is set to utf-8

i receive often utf-8 and iso-8859 message

if i set to utf-8 and the email use iso-8859 i get strange character
same thing if i set to iso-8859 and the email use utf-8

Comment 5 Philip Rodrigues 2007-01-02 15:51:54 UTC

I don't really understand your explanation - if you set the encoding wrong, of course some characters won't appear correctly. Can you attach a message that shows the problem?

Comment 6 Marc Collin 2007-01-21 00:29:44 UTC

Created attachment 19357 [details]
Message with character detection problem

Comment 7 Thomas McGuire 2008-03-13 18:58:59 UTC

*** Bug 158951 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Martin Koller 2009-08-05 21:20:48 UTC

The attached mail does not contain a character encoding, and the fallback encoding set to UTF-8 is wrong in that case, ergo the resulting text looks wrong.

As said in comment #2 this is a broken mail.