Bug#366477: kmail chooses odd character sets when replying/forwarding multi-part messages
Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.5.2-1+b1
Severity: important
Since installing kmail 3.5.2-1+b1, some email recipients have complained that my emails are sometimes inappropriately encoded in iso-8859-6 (arabic). It appears, through trial and error, that the only emails that are inappropriately encoded are replies/forwards from multi-part mime messages. Normally, these messages are ascii/html messages from Outlook.
"Set Encoding" in the Kmail dropdown menu is set to "auto". The character sets listed are in alphabetical order and iso-8859-6 is first in the list. My best guess is that the text encoding logic in kmail is not identifying a known character set, then choosing the first one in the list.
In the kmail configuration under composer->charset, the charsets include us-ascii, ios-8859-1 and utf-8.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.13
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.5.2-1 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.2-2+b1 core libraries for all KDE applica
ii kdepim-kio-plugins 4:3.5.2-1+b1 KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libaudio2 1.7-6 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.0-1+b1 GCC support library
ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.5.18-2 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-12 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkcal2b 4:3.5.2-1+b1 KDE calendaring library
ii libkdepim1a 4:3.5.2-1+b1 KDE PIM library
ii libkleopatra1 4:3.5.2-1+b1 KDE GnuPG interface libraries
ii libkmime2 4:3.5.2-1+b1 KDE MIME interface library
ii libkpimidentities1 4:3.5.2-1+b1 KDE PIM user identity information
ii libksieve0 4:3.5.2-1+b1 KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii libmimelib1c2a 4:3.5.2-1+b1 KDE mime library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.6-2 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++6 4.1.0-1+b1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-5.1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System multi-head display
ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii perl 5.8.8-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages kmail recommends:
ii kdebase-kio-plugins 4:3.5.2-1 core I/O slaves for KDE
ii kdepim-kio-plugins 4:3.5.2-1+b1 KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii procmail 3.22-15 Versatile e-mail processor
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