[Bug 78564] Re: kmail: French accentuated characters displayed as little squares

[mlaverdiere]

Hi,

The setting you pointed me to in Kmail is UTF-8.  I changed it for
iso-8859-15 and now, everything seems to be fine, i.e. there are no
little squares anymore with those French accentuated characters.  Thank
you.

Note however that only some messages with French accentuated characters
(about 20% I would say) that were badly displayed.  In other words,
UTF-8 could be considered to work 80% of the time with those characters.

In my wife's Kubuntu Dapper's laptop, the same setting in Kmail is
iso-8859-15 and everyhting is displayed right.  Obviously, someone (from
the Kubuntu and/or KDE devs) have decided to change the default setting
to UTF-8, as it appears to be now in Edgy.  There could be some good
reasons to do it this way, but as far as I'm concern, iso-8859-15 works
better.

Thanks for your help.

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kmail: French accentuated characters displayed as little squares
https://launchpad.net/bugs/78564