Bug 32322

Summary: copying from a mail to another application uses wrong encoding
Product: [Unmaintained] kmail Reporter: David Monniaux <david.monniaux>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: CLOSED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: David.Monniaux
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: RedHat Enterprise Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description David Monniaux 2001-09-10 14:47:40 UTC 
(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           kmail
Version:           1.3.1 (using KDE 2.2.0 )
Severity:          normal
Installed from:    Red Hat Linux 7.1.93
Compiler:          gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-96)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.7
OS/Compiler notes: 

Running in ISO-10646-1/UTF-8 locale:

If I receive a mail encoded in ISO-8859-1 and copy an extract of it from kmail to another application (kate or emacs) the result is garbled. Tests using emacs showed that the selected text is sent by kmail to other applications using ISO-8859-1.

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Comment 1 Michael Haeckel 2001-09-11 10:04:23 UTC 
On Monday 10 September 2001 16:47 David.Monniaux@ens.fr wrote:
>
> If I receive a mail encoded in ISO-8859-1 and copy an extract of it from
> kmail to another application (kate or emacs) the result is garbled. Tests
> using emacs showed that the selected text is sent by kmail to other
> applications using ISO-8859-1.

Actually works well here. It should of course use always unicode independant 
of your locale.
Does that also happen when copying from Konqueror?
Does it work better if you choose in KMail the option to use unicode fonts?

Regards
Michael Häckel
Comment 2 David Monniaux 2001-09-11 10:42:14 UTC 
Le Mardi 11 Septembre 2001 12:04 vous avez écrit :
> Does that also happen when copying from Konqueror?

No never. I have not been able to reproduce the exact sequence of events
except that I once had a mail window from which copy/paste did not work 
because of encoding problems.
I'll send a followup once I find a way to reproduce it repeatedly.

-- 
David Monniaux            http://www.di.ens.fr/~monniaux
Laboratoire d'informatique de l'Ãcole Normale Supérieure
Paris France
Comment 3 Médéric Boquien 2008-11-23 15:52:44 UTC 
Add the new email of the reporter to the CC list, he cannot access the original one anymore.