> 2007/7/3, Tomas Kuliavas <tokul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > 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. >> >> SquirrelMail does not insert characters from other charsets. Your >> browser does >> that. > > Nope. It's squirrelmail which is doing that (on replies and forwards). > Just try this: > > 1) send yourself email in UTF-8 > 2) try to reply/forward this email using Czech language settings > (iso-8859-2) > > At the moment when Compose window comes up, all the quoted text from > previous mail is broken and it is sent out this way. > > New (Czech) text you type in the compose window is correct. I use Mozilla browser and I run utf-8 only webmail for years. If I do what you are asking in iso-8859-2 SquirrelMail, unsupported characters will be converted to html entities. I don't even have to test it. I know that. > 3) Try reading the reply/forward with any other email client. The > original text is broken - still in UTF-8 although MIME declares > ISO-8859-2. The new text is OK. This is clear RFC violation. > > 4) With lossy_encoding = true this problem does not exist. > > > Lossy encoding does not affect data entered in message compose form. It > only >> makes sure that invalid data does not come from existing email messages. > > Yes, this is exactly what I'm talking about. So lossy_encoding should > be always on, > otherwise Squirrelmail corrupts replies/forwards and violates RFC2046. > >> utf-8 is not cleanest, but optimal solution. Main issues - no backwards >> compatibility with older preferences and it will cause problems with all >> web >> mailers that don't follow MIME standards. >> >> Developers are thinking about converting everything to utf-8. > > This is good news. As I said before, it's 2007 and MIME RFCs came out in > 1996. > Mailers don't supporting MIME *10* years after RFC publication should > be considered broken. It is not MIME violation. It is only incorrect handling of compose form combined with broken browser. UTF-8 is more than 10 years old. Tell that to Eudora. -- Tomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
