On Wednesday 03 December 2025 00:37:12 Mike Bird via tde-users wrote:
On Tue December 2 2025 21:56:39 Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
Ah, you mean this (attached), which I didn't notice follows a giant block of encrypted ?. Judging by the text at the end of the message, the problem seems to be Kmail?
Yep. That shows that the email was correctly formatted when it arrived and something - presumably in kmail - added the white space after the apostrophes.
Are you comfortable on the command line? Can you copy paste a small piece of text from the plain text version of your email (not the text below) into a command such as:
$ echo "but it's a bit" | od -c 0000000 b u t i t ' s a b i t \n 0000017 $
If apostrophe in the email is a fancy utf-8 apostrophe you may get a different result than that shown above from a regular single quote.
Also your kmail message body font and locale might be of interest.
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Aha! @00:50:38 leslie@pinto wd=/home/leslie $ echo "For now I use a workaround at every start-up, but it’s a bit annoying:"|od -c 0000000 F o r n o w I u s e a 0000020 w o r k a r o u n d a t e v 0000040 e r y s t a r t - u p , b u 0000060 t i t 342 200 231 s a b i t a 0000100 n n o y i n g : \n 0000111 rc=0
So it's not Kmail, it's some weird mail software on the other side. This is a bit strange as the message was posted on a Linux mailing list, so most likely originated as UTF-8? Perhaps, though, it was mangled by some intermediate non-Linux server?
Leslie