Re: Still having encoding problems

phep <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.users.pim
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Anne Wilson a écrit :
> View > Set Encoding is set to Auto.  Compose character set is set to utf-8.  
> I'm still seeing some very strange encodings.  From one message received 
> today, for instance:
> 
> each comprising 10œ" dinner plate, 8" soup/breakfast bowl, 7œ" dessert plate, 
> cup and saucer. 
> 
> and
> 
> Mains powered, 2900W, measures 14Ÿ" x 21" x 12Ÿ", generous 45Ÿ pints capacity
> 
> Has anyone any idea why this is happening?

This is ISO-8859-1 displayed as ISO-8859-1 :
Ÿ = ¾
œ = ½

This may be a wrong charset detection by KMail (œ being maybe more
frequent in some countries than ½) but it may also be a wrongly
advertised charset in the headers of the original mail. You can check
this viewing the source of it.

HTH
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