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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#14197: kmail font problem when replying a msg
From:       Michael Haeckel <Michael () Haeckel ! Net>
Date:       2000-10-31 8:39:11
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On Tuesday, 31. October 2000 09:04, you wrote:
> Hi!
>   Many thanks for a very quick reply!
>
> > KMail currently uses the charset of the original mail by default for
> > replies which also has its advantages.
>
> It would be fine but...
> 1) When displaying czech mail (NOT still replying) there may be 3 cases:
>    - The mail is displayed correctly immediately
>    - The mail is displayed incorrectly and manual setting of encoding helps
>    - The mail is displayed incorrectly and manual setting of encoding
> doesn't help.
>    Only in the first case (the most rare :-( ) it seems that the reply is
> coded correctly. In the other cases, iso-8859-1 is chosen.
>
> > There are still some known charset related problems. We are glad to
> > support non iso-8859-1 charsets at all now.
>
> It's a mess for a developer to support something which he maybe cannot test
> enough. Yes, I've read from the lists that non-iso-8859-1 support is fresh
> so it requires its time to stabilize...

The charset support was mainly written by someone from Poland and someone 
from Russia, that is not the problem, I also can test it although I'm from 
Germany, but most mails I write of course in iso-8859-1.

> I would like to help You maximally. There are many problems related to
> national e-mail environment - cp1250 is pushing iso off the scene... But
> I'm not talking about this.
>
>   If it would help You, I can send You a folder full of a czech mail. All
> the three cases are there... You may experiment freely with it. Please ask
> for it if You want.

I think it would be helpful, plese copy some representative mails into a new 
mailbox, gzip it and send it to kmail@kde.org. Please be aware, the we might 
be able to understand something of the content :-)

Regards,
Michael Häckel

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