Bug 135820

Summary: some "special" characters such as "(" are displayed escaped "\\" in the from/sender field
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Christian D. <christiand59>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal CC: martin
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 1.9.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Christian D. 2006-10-17 17:21:49 UTC 
Version:           1.9.5 (using KDE 3.5.5, Kubuntu (edgy) 4:3.5.5-0ubuntu2)
Compiler:          Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.18-rc7

If the "From" field of an e-mail contains a bracket, kmail shows it escaped. E.G "name \\(xyz)". When you click on that e-mail the text is displayed correctly. As soon as you select another e-mail, and go back to the mail with the bracket, the behaviour just turns around, so the escape "\\" is displayed when that mail is selected.

To reproduce receive an e-mail with a bracket in the sender's address. See how the string is displayed escaped. Click on that mail, to make the "\\" go away.
Comment 1 Martin Koller 2009-07-31 14:15:17 UTC 
Can't reproduce with kmail/KDE4. If you still can, please attach a testmail and reopen.