Bug 165190

Summary: Japanese text in plain text body part of HTML message gets corrupted
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: Jaakko K. <shimatta>
Component: composerAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: HI    
Version: 1.9.52   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: a message with gibberish
a mail with gibberish
the message with html formatting
Same message without html formatting.

Description Jaakko K. 2008-06-28 14:47:42 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc version 4.3.1 (Gentoo 4.3.1 p1.0) 
OS:                Linux

Hi,

Sometimes when I send Japanese e-mail, random parts of the mail goes ? marks and the end gets cut off, or � marks. I'm not sure how to reproduce this, but the "HTML document" of the message seems to be fine, only the "plain text document" goes gibberish.

Some screenshots of the problem.

With those � marks: [url]http://img90.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bug1dm2.png[/url]
and it should look like this (HTML document): [url]http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bug2xu1.png[/url]

With cut off part: [url]http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bug3ex4.png[/url]
and it should look like this (HTML document): [url]http://img168.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bug4aw5.png[/url]

I'm using kmail 1.9.52 built from Gentoo svn overlay.
Comment 2 Thomas McGuire 2008-06-29 15:52:14 UTC 
Could you please attach such a mail to this bugreport?
Comment 3 Jaakko K. 2008-06-29 16:04:00 UTC 
Created attachment 25706 [details]
a message with gibberish
Comment 4 Jaakko K. 2008-06-29 16:04:20 UTC 
Created attachment 25707 [details]
a mail with gibberish
Comment 5 Jaakko K. 2008-06-29 16:07:34 UTC 
and also, person who receives the mail, sees it wrong too.
Comment 6 Jaakko K. 2008-07-04 09:00:17 UTC 
I did some testing (with a message which goes bad). Disabling Formatting (HTML) from the new mesaage window while sending seems to fix it (atleast with this mail).
Comment 7 Jaakko K. 2008-07-04 09:07:06 UTC 
Created attachment 25824 [details]
the message with html formatting
Comment 8 Jaakko K. 2008-07-04 09:08:14 UTC 
Created attachment 25825 [details]
Same message without html formatting.
Comment 9 Thomas McGuire 2008-07-05 19:45:02 UTC 
OK, thanks to your attached mail, I am able to reprodcue this.
I'll try to do something about it before the 4.1 release.
Comment 10 Thomas McGuire 2008-07-07 00:12:39 UTC 
SVN commit 828900 by tmcguire:

Don't use a hidden edit widget to remove the formatting from a HTML message (in order
to get a plain text version for the text body part), this corrupts text written in
Japanese.

Instead, read the plain text version directly from the composer, which seems to
work fine.

BUG: 165190


 M  +55 -69    messagecomposer.cpp  
 M  +14 -13    messagecomposer.h  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=828900
Comment 11 Thomas McGuire 2008-07-07 00:14:56 UTC 
Please test the new version and report back if the problem is indeed solved now.
Comment 12 Jaakko K. 2008-07-07 08:45:46 UTC 
I tried with the attached mail, and it works fine now (with html formatting), so it seems to be solved. Thank you.