Re: International characters don't display correctly in the from field

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On 12.11.2009 11:31, pal@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Siterer Peter Welzien <mailinglist@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
>> Hi. I'm having problems with international characters in the from field
>> in the message list in SquirrelMail 1.4.19. Instead of the actual
>> characters
>> I see eg. =?iso-8859-1?q?=C5slund_Tr=F6ger=22?= (quoted printable?). See
>> http://welzien.se/misc/squirrelmail.png for an example. For some reason
>> the characters look good in the subject field.
>>
>> When I open the email, the from field display correctly though.
>>
>> The from field in the email header looks like this:
>> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rikard_=C5slund_Tr=F6ger?= <xxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> The problem only occurs in the from field in the message list view.
>>
>> The characters display correctly when using RoundCube. I haven't tried
>> any other mail reader.
> 
> This is a well known problem in Squirrelmail and I'm sorry to say that  
> it does not seams to be fixed either.

That was totally uncalled for.  I have Chinese, Russian and various
other character sets (including Norwegian) displaying correctly in the
>From field (as well as Subject).

I suggest checking your config.

-- 
Eray


> The developers will not admit  
> there are problems! The bad implementation of foreign encoding is a  
> very good reason for all non English-speaking people to stay away from  
> SM.
> 
> I have choosen to use Horde in stead of Squirrelmail because all  
> encoding problems in SM. Horde is a much better choice.
> --
> Pål Monstad
> 
> 
> 


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