Hello. After yesterday's discussion and some tests it's now clear that Squirrelmail heavily violates RFC2046 when left in default configuration ($lossy_encoding = false). With this default setting, replies/forwards to messages with non-identical charset are improperly formatted like this (example with Czech langueage setting): Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-2 > qouted text in some other charset (win1250, utf-8, iso-8859-1, koi8-r etc...) new text in iso-8859-2 RFC2046 clearly says: 'For other subtypes of "text" than "text/plain", the semantics of the "charset" parameter should be defined to be identical to those specified here for "text/plain", i.e., the body consists *entirely* of characters in the given charset.' Since Squirrelmail inserts characters from other charset into a message body declared as being in iso-8859-2, it definitely violates the RFC and causes problems to recipients of such emails. I personally consider this to be a major bug. Therefore, I'd like to kindly ask: - all Squirrelmail users, to check their configuration and ensure that $lossy_encoding is always set to true - Squirrelmail developers, to completely remove option $lossy_encoding from the future releases and always act as if it was set to "true", i.e. always perform charset conversion even if lossy. Options causing serious RFC violation should not exist and never be the default ! The cleanest solution here would be to use UTF-8 for all languages, which will ensure that the conversions are never lossy. Therefore I'm quite disappointed that the utf-8 version of Squirrelmail is not being updated since 1.4.8. Anyway, the yesterday's advice from Tomas works great, so at least this should be put in README, FAQ, or so. Thanks, Petr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
