"Michael Engel"
I asked> I have to use mostly Japanese and English - but I also want to use I asked> German and French under Linux.
Mike said>I recommend to use an UTF-8 locale then, for example: Mike said> export LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 Mike said>export LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 Mike said>export LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
Now, I have a problem (most probably due to my very basic understanding of Linux but I promise, I will learn it):
KMail (KDE?) swallowed all French special characters from an email which I received, they are just left out.
Was the e-mail correctly encoded and the MIME headers OK? Does it help if you manually choose the correct encoding for the display of this mail in the KMail menu? If yes, something is wrong with the mail. If not I guess you have a font problem. Which font(s) are you using? If you want to use a single font, you have to make sure that it contains all characters you need, i.e. you cannot use Kochi Minch or Kochi Gothic alone for example because these don't have German Umlauts and other accented characters. But you can use Kochi Mincho/Kochi Gothic together with some other font which supports all the European glyphs. I.e. you can select "Nimbus Mono L" for example. Because of the default setup in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf, "Kochi Gothic" will be used for the Japanese glyphs then. "qtconfig" has a dialog to setup font substitutions to setup your preferred font combinations, see also: http://www.suse.de/~mfabian/suse-cjk/kde-font-setup.html Unfortunately this doesn't work with the Qt 3.1.1 packages on SuSE Linux 8.2 and it doesn't work with the Qt 3.1.2 packages in ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/8.2-i586 either. But with the current beta version of Qt it works again. You can get packages for testing here: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mfabian/experimental/8.2-i586
OpenOffice doesn't show them either, here they are squares etc.
This is probably a font issue as well.
With vi, however, I can see them all correctly.
p.s. I can also read it when saving as an encapsulated message and then opening with KWrite and switching the encoding to iso 8859-1
What happens when you select iso-8859-1 in the KMail menu?
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Mike Fabian