When answering a mail in a language one is not fluent in, it is convenient to display the received mail in konqueror with a split window (window/Split view Left/Right).. The left portion contains the text wrapped to fit window width. and the right portion a hopefully not too large dictionary refering to unknown words of the received mail. Those words had to be looked up anyway when reading the mail in the first place. If one has already a poor short term memory like myself it is advisable to generate while reading- in case of Japanese with Gijten- a dictionary file .In principle there are two ways to do this with Mozilla- mail: One uses the mail parh with "Edit draft" and for the other one first saves the mail file, opens with Mozilla and works with the composer, using "Edit page". This all worked fine with LINUX 9.0, but does not work with LINUX 9.3, using exactly the same procedure and trying various others. If one cannot just scroll the text in the smaller split window, i.e. if it is not automatically wrapped when openend with the konqueror the advantage of this procedure is partially lost. Many weird things happen: konqueror cannot open a *.eml file, If the recieved mail was utf-8 coded one ends up with an unstructured *.asc file, which is however structured when opened with kwrite, iso-2022-JP coded files from different senders behave differently, even if with "View/Character Encoding/Customize the code is adapted to utf-8...... Unfortunately, to my best knowledge kmail does not allow one to apply a similar procedure . Any help of somebody who can look deeper into the respective codes would be highly appreciated, on request I would of course outline in detail what I have tried. Thank you in advance W.L. Engl