[Cialug] KMail misinterpreting plain text

[Jeff Chapin]

"It's not a bug, it's a feature"

While that quote is tossed around way too often, in this case, it is
true.  They deliberately enabled that behaviour by default. Just one
more case of KDE deciding "to hell with users, what they want, and what
they do" when they made the transition to KDE4.

No idea where to shut that off -- if you even can, yet.

Jeff

Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> For the last couple months (i think since i upgraded Debian from 
> "stable" to "testing" and thus KDE switched to 4) KMail has had an 
> annoying bug where slashes in plain-text e-mail cause the text to be 
> italicized, asterisks cause bold, and underscores cause underlining. I 
> want plain-text to be rendered as it is written. I haven't been able to 
> find a way to work around this bug. Any ideas?
>
> Note: KMail is the only KDE app i use; my window manager is AfterStep. 
> I've looked all throughout KMail's settings though and not found 
> anything.
>
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