Arabic characters in kmail
After the recent upgrade to kmail 4:17.12.3-1 I am seeing Arabic characters replacing punctuation marks in the kmail message pane. For instance " (utf-8 E2 80 A6) is being replaced by ق and ' (utf-8 E2 80 99) is also replaced by ق Locale seem to be correct: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_GB LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL= Presumably a bug with this version of kmail but could be something I have overlooked, so it would be helpful to know if anyone else has seen this happening. Rob (up to date Debian Sid)
Re: Arabic characters in kmail
On Friday, May 11, 2018 12:50:30 PM CEST Rob Brewer wrote: > After the recent upgrade to kmail 4:17.12.3-1 I am seeing Arabic characters > replacing punctuation marks in the kmail message pane. > > For instance " (utf-8 E2 80 A6) is being replaced by ق > and ' (utf-8 E2 80 99) is also replaced by I've sent to myself the incriminated characters, that is: U+2026 … e2 80 a6HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS U+2019 ’ e2 80 99RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK U+201C “ e2 80 9cLEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK U+2018 ‘ e2 80 98LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK (source: https://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl? start=8192&number=128) and I haven't noticed anything, but maybe I misunderstood where exactly the problem should be observed. My Kmail has the same version number as yours, even though my update is like a week old. Let's see how this email shows ;) My locale is a bit different from yours. $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 > ق > > > Locale seem to be correct: > > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE=en_GB > LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= > > Presumably a bug with this version of kmail but could be something I have > overlooked, so it would be helpful to know if anyone else has seen this > happening. > > > Rob > > (up to date Debian Sid)
Re: Arabic characters in kmail
inkbottle wrote: > On Friday, May 11, 2018 12:50:30 PM CEST Rob Brewer wrote: >> After the recent upgrade to kmail 4:17.12.3-1 I am seeing Arabic >> characters replacing punctuation marks in the kmail message pane. >> >> For instance " (utf-8 E2 80 A6) is being replaced by ق >> and ' (utf-8 E2 80 99) is also replaced by > > I've sent to myself the incriminated characters, that is: > U+2026… e2 80 a6HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS > U+2019’ e2 80 99RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK > U+201C“ e2 80 9cLEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK > U+2018‘ e2 80 98LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK > Thank you for your help your characters seem to be reproduced correctly here as well. I suspect that this is combined html document problem then, as the snippit below shows the problem is in the quoted-printable section --=_Part_140756414_962358756.1525866442311 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable We want to stay in touch =E2=80=93 action needed snip... --=_Part_140756414_962358756.1525866442311 this is displayed as: We want to stay in touch ق action needed Not sure how quoted-printable is handled in kmail. Maybe the problem is in the sending software but this is happening on at least 2 different email sources. Reading the email with Thunderbird does not show the problem. Regards Rob
Re: Arabic characters in kmail
Rob Brewer wrote: OK I have found the problem > > Not sure how quoted-printable is handled in kmail. Maybe the problem is in > the sending software but this is happening on at least 2 different email > sources. > The "Override character encoding:" in the Appearance - General tab of the Configure menu was set to "Arabic (ISO 8859-6)". Changing this to "Auto" solves the problem. Maybe I set the encoding accidentally when changing my account settings recently. Thank you for your help . Rob
