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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    [Bug 60549] kmail composer with external editor botches character
From:       Alain Knaff <kde () lka ! org ! lu>
Date:       2003-07-02 12:31:31
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------- Additional Comments From kde@lka.org.lu  2003-07-02 14:31 -------
> That option is, I believe, for KMail's own composer. 
 
I see. 
 
> When it composes the  
> message, it will try to use the first encoding that works to encode the whole text. If  
> you have utf-8 in your list, the encoding will always succeed. 
 
But, in that case, the person receiving the mail may not succeed in decoding it, depending on 
what mail program he uses (pine?, elm?). Using utf-8 is somewhat premature, IMHO, given that 
many apps may not yet be able to correctly deal with it... 
 
>The problem is only with external editors. There's no other communication  
> mechanism for the external editor to tell KMail what the encoding is -- unless it  
> wrote a MIME header. 
 
And naively, I thought that this menu option was that communication mechanism...
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