Anne Wilson wrote:> On Wednesday 09 September 2009 21:35:05 James Tyrer wrote:>> Anne Wilson wrote:>>> On Monday 07 September 2009 17:08:25 Carlos Luna wrote:>>>> I think this could help you. (It's for config locales in your system)>>>> http://www.adslayuda.com/Linux-locales.html>>> Thanks, but I do have the correct locale installed, and I use utf-8,>>> which should, as far as I know, handle all European accented characters>>> without a problem. In fact in many applications it does.>> After some further research, I am starting to think that this is a bug.>> The reason is that it isn't just IBM cp1252 that is screwed up but>> also ISO 8859-1 has the same problem.>>>> When a text file composed in either code page which contains characters>>>>> = 128 (>7F Hex) is opened wit UTF-8, it fails to properly decode the>> glyphs >= 128. This happens despite the fact that the apps which I have>> tried correctly count the number of glyphs before changing them to the>> FFFD Hex character ?.>>>> The >=128 glyphs which I commonly user are: äëïöüñ. Since I am sending>> this email in ISO 8859-1, these characters will not appear correctly if>> viewed with UTF-8.>>>> I have found that the only solution to this problem is to set the code>> page for incoming mail to either ISO 8859-1 or IBM cp 1252.> > Not sure what's happening James. If the characters you typed were umlauted, > as they seem to be, then they are reading correctly on this netbook (I'll > check on another machine later). Here KMail is set to use the following> > utf-8> utf-8 (locale)> us-ascii> iso-8859-1> > Now whether that means that if one doesn't fit it falls back to the next one, I > don't know. What do you think?> If you check the source, you will find:
text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
You have iso-8859-1 in the list, so it worked.
Perhaps you could check the source of one of the emails that produced the "�" character set and see what says, or perhaps it says nothing.
-- JRT
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