[Portland] RE: xdg-email BCC

[Benjamin Meyer]

On Wednesday 07 June 2006 01:05, Bastian, Waldo wrote:
> It's possible to add a --utf8 option and decree that when that is specified
> the command line options are utf8 encoded. Iconv can do conversion back and
> forth where needed. What's harder (as Kevin pointed out) is to convert
> everything to some sort of canonical form (most likely a single mailto uri)
> before calling into the desktop environment (kfmclient / gnome-open).
>
> On a related note, didn't KMail actually had a problem with unicode in
> mailto-urls that you (someone else?) fixed? Which versions of KDE are
> affected by that? That may require a work around if we want xdg-utils to
> work on older distros.

Yes, kmail currently doesn't work with encoded url's, it forces it to latin8 
in kservice I think.  This is a bug.

-Benjamin Meyer