Daniel D Jones wrote: > My son recently started complaining that my replies to his emails caused > his computer to prompt for the system disk and showed up blank. (He uses > Windows and Outlook, unfortunately.) If I send him a new email, it works > find. If I reply to his, it causes problems. > > I took a look at my replies to him and found this: > > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-6" > > I looked at his email, to which I was replying, and found: > > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0000_01C76655.354C13A0" > > There is no charset line in his email headers.
In this case, Content-Type and charset declarations will be contained in the various parts of the message. I. e. search for boundary markers - the Content-Type declarations should be immediately below them. > Anyone have a clue as to why Kmail might be setting the reply to charset: > iso-8859-6, which is Arabic? I can't find anything in his emails to cause > this. Go to Settings / Configure Kmail... / Composer / Charset There you should see a list of charsets KMail tries to use for encoding outgoing mail. Maybe this list contains iso-8869-6. Regards mks -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
