From kmail-devel  Mon Jun 30 18:15:18 2003
From: Alain Knaff <kde () alk ! org ! lu>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:15:18 +0000
To: kmail-devel
Subject: [Bug 60549] New: kmail composer with external editor botches
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           Summary: kmail composer with external editor botches character
                    set encoding
           Product: kmail
           Version: 1.5.1
          Platform: SuSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kmail@kde.org
        ReportedBy: kde@alk.org.lu


Version:           1.5.1 (using KDE 3.1.2)
Installed from:    SuSE
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3 20030226 (prerelease) (SuSE Linux)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.21

While composing, Kmail misdisplays Euro Signs as "crossed circle", even after selecting iso-8859-15 as the encoding.

When attempting to send the mail, it pops up a cryptic error message ("Not all characters fit into the chosen encoding. Send the message anyway?"), and upon clicking yes, the euro-signs are replaced with question marks (ascii 63). Please fix this.

N.B. This is not the only character set issue in KDE 3.1.2 . In many other apps, setting up default character encodings has become increasingly difficult, or sometimes buggy. I remember that in previous versions this has been a lot easyer.

N.B. The problem has been observed when using emacs (or rather: gnuclient) as an external editor. Emacs shows the euro sign correctly. Only after Ctrl-X # is it shown as the infamous iso-8850-1 crossed circle in kmail.

When switching off external editor, kmail shows a blank square instead of Euro.

>From what I've heard, KDE is trying to use some kind of "smart" autodetection to guess what the user wants, but it seems in many situations this does not work out. Please provide a (working) option to allow the user to say explicitly what he wants.
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