Tomas Kuliavas wrote: >> I installed Squirrelmail 1.4.10a and selected Czech language. All >> incoming mail is displayed fine, but when I try to reply to or forward >> mail which is not in ISO-8859-2 codepage, the quoted text is broken. >> >> When the message is in ISO-8859-2, replying/forwarding is OK. >> Does it mean squirrelmail supports only one single charset ?! > > http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/SupportedCharsets > >> This problem happens also for Windows-1250 charset, which is almost >> identical to ISO-8859-2. > > If you reply to cp1250 email, only non-identical characters are broken in > default SquirrelMail configuration. > >> The usual behaviour of email clients is either reply/forward with the >> same charset as was in the original message, or use UTF-8. None of >> these options seems to be available in Squirrelmail. >> >> Hey, it's 2007 and charset conversions are known for years. So why >> it's still not implemented and why is Squirrelmail limited to a single >> charset? No problem if this single charset would be UTF-8, but >> ISO-8859-2 ???? > > Charset conversions work flawlessly in controlled user interface. For example in > local programs executed on user's machine. They don't work in webmail interfaces > written in HTML and PHP. Especially in webmails with minimal PHP requirements as > SquirrelMail. > > There is SquirrelMail configuration option which allows to ignore the fact that > conversion to character set selected by end user will be lossy. If setting is > turned on, you should be able to reply to Czech email written in utf-8 with > minimal loss of characters. > > n years ago SquirrelMail i18n developers asked translators to switch to UTF-8. > Only one translator switched. SquirrelMail developers allowed translators to > keep their selected character sets and haven't forced mass conversion to utf-8. > We live in a free world. To my mind, this is one of those situations where being a little less free would definitely result in a greater benefit for all. If squirrelmail dev gave a deadline for character sets to be updated to UTF8 or otherwise removed from the package, I would be all for it. Hopefully more than one translator would then respond. Problems with reading and sending messages has always affected our installations. One thing I really would like to see is the ability to send and read email in other languages without having to switch the language option to that language as seems to be necessary. Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
