kmail utf8 password problem
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....) |
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. |
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? |
Are you sure that the password characters share the same bytecode both in UTF and in ISO?
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