Version: 1.2 (using KDE 3.5.1 Level "a" , SUSE 10.1) Compiler: Target: x86_64-suse-linux OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.16-rc6-git1-4-default kontact use automatic character encoding. often when i receive email, kontact seem to detect it like utf-8 but people write me with iso-8859-1 i don't character like: é,è,ô,û,ç......
Settings->Configure Kmail -> Appearance -> Message Window -> Fallback Character Encoding. Is it set to iso-8859?
Please go to one such email in KMail, Ctrl+S and save to disk. Then zip it and attach it here. KMail isn't supposed to detect encoding in emails. Emails MUST say which encoding they are in. Anything else is broken email.
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is set to utf-8 i receive often utf-8 and iso-8859 message if i set to utf-8 and the email use iso-8859 i get strange character same thing if i set to iso-8859 and the email use utf-8
I don't really understand your explanation - if you set the encoding wrong, of course some characters won't appear correctly. Can you attach a message that shows the problem?
Created attachment 19357 [details] Message with character detection problem
*** Bug 158951 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The attached mail does not contain a character encoding, and the fallback encoding set to UTF-8 is wrong in that case, ergo the resulting text looks wrong. As said in comment #2 this is a broken mail.