Bug 404863

Summary: KMail should use UTF-8 as default encoding
Product: [Applications] kmail2 Reporter: AurĂ©lien Murith <aurelien.murith>
Component: composerAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: bugs.kde.org, cfeck, null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
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Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Aurélien Murith 2019-02-27 00:23:19 UTC 
Unless you manually change the encoding settings, KMail will send messages using US-ASCII if possible, then ISO-8859-1 and will only use UTF-8 when using ISO-8859-1 is not possible.

Since UTF-8 has been a de facto standard for years, the use of ISO-8859-1 sometimes causes a few problems. For example, I regularly send messages to a mailing list. The list server automatically adds a few lines of text at the bottom of my messages, using UTF-8 encoding. The result is that those added lines appear broken, because their encoding does not match the one of my messages, which is ISO-8859-1.

I cannot see why it would be better to keep using ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8, so I think KMail should now default to UTF-8. This is what most other mail clients do.
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2019-03-12 10:53:50 UTC 
> The list server automatically adds a few lines of text at the bottom of my messages, using UTF-8 encoding.

Not respecting the encoding of the message is a bug that you should report to the admins of that list server.