cant send utf-8 encded emails in 2.0.3

[Guntupalli Karunakar <karunakar netcore co in>]

Hi,
  I am using balsa 2.0.3, since its based on Gnome2, I can type mails
- subject & message in Hindi, but when sent, subject line remains ok (
utf-8 text shows properly ) but not the message body - its all appears
as ????? .

below is relevant part of headers of few mails
********* 
-->> This message was with  encoding set to 8bit

Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:40:30 +0530
From: Kalpit Jain <test1@netcore.co.in>
To: test1@netcore.co.inXtete??
Cc: karunakar@indlinux.org, karunakarg@hotmail.com
Subject: Hindi mail (हिà¤à¤¦à¥ मॠमà¥à¤²)
Message-ID: <20021119081030.GC16632@rh80>
References: <20021119080918.GA16632@rh80>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
In-Reply-To: <20021119080918.GA16632@rh80>; from test1@netcore.co.in
on Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 13:39:18 +0530
X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.3
Lines: 9

-->> This message with encoding set to quoted

rom: web login <karunaka@netcore.co.in>
To: test1@netcore.co.in
Cc: karunakarg@hotmail.com, karunakar@indlinux.org
Subject: à¤à¤à¤à¤à¤à¤
Message-ID: <20021119083919.GA4432@cartoon>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.2
Lines: 4

???????????????
??????????????????

-->> Below is relevant part of mail header from a mail send from Kmail
1.4.3 (KDE 3.0.3)

Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="utf-8"
From: G Karunakar <karunakar@indlinux.org>
Reply-To: karunakar@indlinux.org
Organization: Netcore
To: karunakar@indlinux.org
Subject: Hindi mail हिनà¥à¤¦à¥
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 12:49:27 +0530
User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3
Cc: karunakarg@hotmail.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Message-Id: <200211181249.27604.karunakar@indlinux.org>

Hindi mail
हिनà¥à¤¦à¥ मà¥à¤²
karunakar

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So balsa doesnt support sending unicode (utf-8) emails ? Will future
versions support it. Now that its Gnome2 enabled lot of people will
use it to send mails in indian languages.

Regards,
Karunakar

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