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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    [Kde-pim] Re: [kdepim-users] KMail and characters sets (=20 problem)
From:       Peter <peter777 () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2011-03-14 6:14:43
Message-ID: 201103141714.43444.peter777 () users ! sourceforge ! net
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On Monday 14 March 2011 12:05:24 you wrote:
> On Monday 14 March 2011 11:43:51 Peter wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Some emails being sent from KMail refuse to use the char set defined.
> >
> > Some lines end in
> >
> > = , and then the next line starts in
> >
> >  
> >
> > and there are a whole lot of lines with " " in them.
> >
> > The emails with the 'garbage' have this in the headers
> >
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: Text/Plain;
> >
> >   charset="utf-8"
> >
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> >
> > and the emails that look okay have this
> >
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: Text/Plain;
> >
> >   charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >
> > or sometimes a charset of us-ascii I think.
> >
> > Is there anyway way to FORCE either is-ascii or iso-8859-1
> >
> > What characters will make the email contain garbage ? Like wjat about
> > quotes, single quotes, underlines, dashes, double equal signs, etc, etc
> > ??
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter
>
> OOps, I just noticied under  Options  |  Set Encoding  it is set to 'auto
> detect' , so that is the problem; I should select an encoding.
>
> Should I use utf-8 or iso-8859-1 ?

Also, when I send or save as draft, after 'forcing' the encoding (this will be
sent as us-ascii, there is a message stating that some characters may be lost.
What characters can be lost ?

Peter
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