From kdepim-users  Thu Aug 31 13:10:27 2006
From: Dirk Meetschen <uzsaf4 () uni-bonn ! de>
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:10:27 +0000
To: kdepim-users
Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] Problem with display of "Umlaute" in kmail
Message-Id: <200608311510.27901.uzsaf4 () uni-bonn ! de>
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Am Donnerstag, 31. August 2006 14:49 schrieb Andreas Petzold:
> your are right, the encoding info is missing in the original email. So the
> message is broken. So far so good, but why is kmail able to show the
> correct characters sometimes, i.e. when I mark the message in the list
> pane? There seems to be an inconsistency in kmail when handling these
> broken messages.
>
> When I manually change the view encoding to iso-8859-1 the message body
> with its formerly broken characters is correctly displayed, but the subject
> line in the preview pane _and_ the list pane still shows broken characters.

... I'm just guessing: For the message list KMail maybe just reads the header 
of the mail, where there is no information on the encoding. When you open the 
mail, it reads the whole message, where it finds the encoding, which is now 
used for the subject as well.
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