Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail and incorrect character encoding

[Markus Schönhaber]

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_0000_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
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