Bug 183296

Summary:	Searching for words with umlauts fails
Product:	[Applications] kmail	Reporter:	dag
Component:	search	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bjoern, kde-bugzilla
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description dag 2009-02-05 13:16:11 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.0)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources

Hi,

Searching for a string with ä in it fails with:

Searching of folder INBOX failed. The server returned: Missing or invalid argument to UID SEARCH

Environment:
 - Linux 2.6.28
- IMAP: UW-imap 2007B version

Best
Dag

Comment 1 Jaime Torres 2009-02-05 16:26:26 UTC

While I do not get a server error, the search for "subject contains ä" returns nothing, but "subject matches reg. exp. ä" returns the message.
Using kmail 1.11.90 (kde 4.2.61)

Comment 2 Daniel Hahler 2009-04-14 22:02:25 UTC

Works for me, but it returns only 3 results for "ä in subject", while using "ä" in the folder list search bar provides a lot more results (no numbers being displayed), all legit.

"Find Messages" does not find e.g.:
 Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Adventskalender=2C_Kl=E4ppchen_16?="

But it finds:
Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Antw:=20Adventskalender,=20dat=209.=20Kl=C3=A4ppschen?=

So apparently, it only works for UTF-8 encoded subjects?! (in my case).

Comment 3 Daniel Hahler 2009-04-14 22:03:04 UTC

I'm using KMail 1.11.2 (KDE 4.2.2) from Kubuntu.

Comment 4 Laurent Montel 2015-04-12 10:22:54 UTC

Thank you for taking the time to file a bug report.

KMail2 was released in 2011, and the entire code base went through significant changes. We are currently in the process of porting to Qt5 and KF5. It is unlikely that these bugs are still valid in KMail2.

We welcome you to try out KMail 2 with the KDE 4.14 release and give your feedback.