Bug 141931

Summary:	iCalendar invitations/replies: Accentued chars in some fields makes Outlook crap out
Product:	[Applications] korganizer	Reporter:	Colin Leroy <colin>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	smartins
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.9
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	a file that works in Outlook one that doesn't work

Description Colin Leroy 2007-02-19 17:20:21 UTC

Version:           1.9.5 (using KDE KDE 3.5.2)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

I noticed that Outlook craps out and displays the raw message/rfc822 mail as plain/text, including headers, when an iCalendar invitation, reply, or Free/busy information has an ORGANIZER or ATTENDEE field with a CN attribute that contains extended chars (like umlauts, etc).

This is clearly an Outlook bug, but maybe you'll be interested in knowing that and/or put a workaround.

I'll attach two ICS files, one with "Gaël" as ATTENDEE, one with "Gael".

Comment 1 Colin Leroy 2007-02-19 17:21:10 UTC

Created attachment 19747 [details]
a file that works in Outlook

Comment 2 Colin Leroy 2007-02-19 17:22:20 UTC

Created attachment 19748 [details]
one that doesn't work

These two files demonstrate the problem if mailed to Outlook. They've been
generated with Claws Mail, but it suffers from the same problem.

Comment 3 Colin Leroy 2007-02-19 17:24:14 UTC

You'll notice that accentued chars in the SUMMARY or DESCRIPTION fields are no problem for Outlook, whereas ORGANIZER and ATTENDEE are. Quite funny that they don't use the same decoding functions for all the fields :)

Comment 4 Thomas McGuire 2007-02-19 18:31:49 UTC

I think invitations are actually handled by KOrganizer, so I'll reassign this bug report.

Comment 5 Axel Müller 2007-07-06 10:06:53 UTC

That is really annoying. If any participant of an invitation has a non-us-ascii char (umlauts etc.) in his name Outlook gets the crap. I have to tell all my colleagues to insert my name without any umlauts in their addressbook so they can read my invitations/replies.

Comment 6 Axel Müller 2007-11-13 16:34:48 UTC

I guess I have found a solution for this problem. In KMail or Kontact go to Settings->Configure KMail->Composer->Charset or Settings->Configure Kontact->Email->Composer->Charset, respectively. Bring utf-8 to be on top. The complete attachment (incl. ORGANIZER and ATTENDEE) will then be correctly utf-8 encoded.

Comment 7 Sergio Martins 2013-10-19 23:02:10 UTC

is this still a problem ?