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SAngeli

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Thursday, July 14th 2005, 12:01pm

KMail & Encoding / Printing

Hi,

I currently run kde 3.4.1 on Gentoo - Linux mir 2.6.11-gentoo-r11
Interface language: English
I have my set encodings to Auto.

Here my two issues:
1) when I receive mail in Greek, I do see a sequence of squares.
In order to see it properly, I have to manually change the encodings from View -> Set Encodings and change it from Auto to Greek (ISO 8859-7) Only then I am able to properly see Greek fonts.
Then, obviously, I have to set it back to Auto.
QUESTION: What is the role of Auto in encodings? What is the proper behavior and how to solve this so that automatically will detect the kind of encoding and auto adapt?

2) When I try to print via CUPS the above greek email, I get a sequence of squares, as for when I display it.
QUESTION: How to properly set my kmail to print?

I thank you,
Spiro

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "SAngeli" (Jul 14th 2005, 12:01pm)

mart_k

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Friday, July 15th 2005, 10:34am

RE: KMail & Encoding / Printing

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Originally posted by SAngeli
QUESTION: What is the role of Auto in encodings? What is the proper behavior and how to solve this so that automatically will detect the kind of encoding and auto adapt?
An short explanation about encodings can be found here (pdf). Auto means that it will search for some hints about the encoding, and then it choses an encoding automaticly.

If you look to the source of your email (you can see this with pressing "v"), and looks for a line beginning with Content-Type. That line should be just before the end of the header, e.g. before the message itselfs begins. Which charset is given at that line of the line next? For example, if this is in the sourse of the email:

Source code

 
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Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
the encoding is iso-8859-1.

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Originally posted by SAngeliQUESTION: How to properly set my kmail to print?
If you print it as PostScript, are the characters then printed correctly? (You can view PostScript files with kghostview or gv).