Bug 44367

Summary:	Enable a default charset for reading news
Product:	[Unmaintained] knode	Reporter:	Arne Schmitz <arne.schmitz>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	ana
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	0.7.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Arne Schmitz 2002-06-26 09:19:36 UTC

(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           knode
Version:           0.7.1 (using KDE 3.0.1 )
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    SuSE
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE)
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.4.17
OS/Compiler notes: 

I post news articles using UTF-8 encoding. But there are many users out there using Outlook Express which does not add a "Content-Type" header field in the default configuration. This way Umlauts and other special characters are broken when I read news because KNode thinks the postings are UTF-8 encoded instead of iso-8859-1 or -15. It would be nice to have a setting for a standard encoding when reading news postings that is different from the default encoding (UTF-8 in my case) of KNode.

(Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
(Called from KBugReport dialog)

Comment 1 Dalibor Karlović 2006-08-09 23:23:54 UTC

It would be cool to be able to select this per account or per group even.

Comment 2 Dalibor Karlović 2006-08-09 23:24:41 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Comment 3 Olivier Trichet 2009-08-09 18:09:40 UTC

It has long been possible to set a fallback encoding per group.
A fall back per server is requested in bug #198060