[gentoo-user] Kmail and incorrect character encoding
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__01C76655.354C13A0 There is no charset line in his email headers. 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail and incorrect character encoding
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__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
Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail and incorrect character encoding
Daniel D Jones wrote: 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__01C76655.354C13A0 There is no charset line in his email headers. Look for charset in his parts. For example: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0003_01C74C69.D9B87510 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Also, check kmail (Settings/Configure Kmail/Composer/Charset) Regards, Norberto -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail and incorrect character encoding
On Saturday 17 March 2007 15:13:59 Daniel D Jones wrote: 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. It's the default Fallback Character encoding I believe, Appearance Message Window. -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
