On Wednesday 03 December 2025 01:36:37 Mike Bird via tde-users wrote:
On Tue December 2 2025 22:55:17 Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
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?
SMTP servers don't mangle mail except to add headers at the beginning.
The text was probably copy-pasted from a word-processor that auto-corrected ASCII single quote to a unicode right single quotation mark:
https://codepoints.net/U+2019?lang=en
Nevertheless that character displays correctly in my KMail.
If you want to pursue this further please screenshot your Settings / Configure KMail / Appearance / Fonts / Message Body.
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Okay, now I understand what's happened. I had changed my Message Body font from Droid Serif to DejaVu Sans Mono because I got tired of having to switch fonts to view plaintext posts with imbedded terminal output. (I generally prefer using DejaVu Sans Mono to Droid Sans Mono because it supports more special characters*, but clearly it's not appropriate for use in viewing Kmail messages. I have switched to Droid Sans Mono, which does not produce the weirdness.
Leslie
*See attached.
