https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404863
Bug ID: 404863
Summary: KMail should use UTF-8 as default encoding
Product: kmail2
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: minor
Priority: NOR
Component: composer
Assignee: kdepim-b...@kde.org
Reporter: aurelien.mur...@net-c.be
Target Milestone: ---
Unless you manually change the encoding settings, KMail will send messages
using US-ASCII if possible, then ISO-8859-1 and will only use UTF-8 when using
ISO-8859-1 is not possible.
Since UTF-8 has been a de facto standard for years, the use of ISO-8859-1
sometimes causes a few problems. For example, I regularly send messages to a
mailing list. The list server automatically adds a few lines of text at the
bottom of my messages, using UTF-8 encoding. The result is that those added
lines appear broken, because their encoding does not match the one of my
messages, which is ISO-8859-1.
I cannot see why it would be better to keep using ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8,
so I think KMail should now default to UTF-8. This is what most other mail
clients do.
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