Bug 2684

Summary: signature not inserted when LC_ALL not set
Product: Claws Mail (GTK 2) Reporter: Hans <hm>
Component: UI/Compose WindowAssignee: users
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.8.0   
Hardware: PC   
OS: FreeBSD   

Description Hans 2012-06-29 12:36:49 UTC 
I need the english interface but my signature files of certain accounts may contain iso.8859-1 characters

the signature is only appended to the message body (auto or ctrl+g) when LC_ALL pt_BR.ISO8859-1 is set, LC_LANG is not enough, without it only the signatures not containing 8859-1 chars are appended
Comment 1 Colin Leroy 2012-08-29 15:49:14 UTC 
This is a default encoding problem. Claws can't guess what to use if your locale is, for example, en_US as this language's charset is historically ASCII, so Claws Mail uses UTF-8 encoding.

You can either specify an LC_ALL=en_US.ISO8859-1, or convert your .signature files to UTF-8.

Check in Help/About (Scroll down the Info tab) to see which charset Claws uses for interacting with files on the filesystem.