kmail utf8 password problem

ppr:kut · 10-19-2007, 06:41 AM

Hello,

I once again tried switching Slackware from iso8859-15 to utf-8.
So far so good, when trying to check for mails, i got an error in kmail.
I have a password using special characters, which is no problem as long as $LANG is not set to utf-8 (don't know exactly what is possible, but I think I used de_DE and en_US).

I guess it isn't kmails fault (but it could be possible, of course), but the servers. Is it possible, that it doesn't support utf-8 on login?? kmail offers different login-methods of which only plain text does work.
Thinking of that problem I tried encoding the password to iso8859-15, which didn't change something.

Any ideas?

(I've switched back now, for the moment, as this is something I cannot bear....)

duryodhan · 10-20-2007, 02:20 AM

Does the server you are using give you webmail access as well? Cos you could try utf-8 password there.

Other than that, personally I don't think kmail will have a problem with utf-8 as KDE has a big i18n project and that couldn't possibly work without supporting utf-8.

ppr:kut · 10-21-2007, 04:13 PM

Right
I've tested over the webmail frontend, and it's the same there. It comes in iso8859-1,
but when forced to utf-8, password verification fails too.
I've tried writing the password in kate, saving it as utf-8, and then opening it as iso8859-1.
That gives a weird string which I thought would be the same for the server when receiving it.
It didn't work out though....Any ideas on how a utf-8 password on iso-only server 'injection' could possibly work?

Alien_Hominid · 10-21-2007, 05:06 PM

Are you sure that the password characters share the same bytecode both in UTF and in ISO?