Piyush Joshi <pj.netfilter <at> gmail.com> writes: > > I am having an issue with display of mail whenever someone send mail in > Hindi from gmail squirrel-mail doesn't show it correctly, I know this is > Unicode issue and i did some changes to solve using Google help but so far > no success ..Having few query :- > 1. What's all requirement to properly display mail in all or particular > language. Email must be correctly formatted (MIME RFCs 2045-2048). Correct Content-Type, charset, Content-Transfer-Encoding and MIME-Version headers must be used. If email does not follow MIME standards or provides false information about used character set, broken mailer must be fixed instead of SquirrelMail display code. Character set must be supported by SquirrelMail. wiki has page with supported charsets. Other charsets can be added, if charset's mapping to Unicode table is publicly available. If symbols used in charset are not supported by Unicode, they will be replaced with ?. If charset has large mapping table and symbols can't be mapped with simple code, this charset must be supported by PHP recode, iconv or mbstring extension. General rule - charset with more than 256 codepoints must be supported by external charset conversion library, if it is not some Unicode variation. Browser and OS must support particular language. Firefox and other Gecko browsers need fonts with symbols for that language. IE might need some OS updates or language packs. Users must complain and provide constructive feedback and help, if they want to solve particular charset or text alignment issues. > 2. When replying and forwarding the mail written in Hindi why squirrel-mail > add garbage value instead the actual content. You reply in html_mail plugin, which is limited to iso-8859-1 due to bug in plugin code or character set used by user's translation does not support Hindi symbols or user overrides character set in browser. > 3. Is it required to have html enabled for seeing message in different > language. I think current stable display code has some quirks that are triggered, if you view html-only email in text mode, but they are specific to some European languages. SquirrelMail supports utf-8 display since 1.2.9. utf-8 decoder supports all utf-8 byte sequences. If I remember correctly 1.4.5 version improved html display and converted email text to character set used by webmail user in compose, if output charset supported all or most of input charset symbols. In real life it means that only utf-8 translations can fully use this feature, because other charsets don't cover all symbols supported by UTF-8 and list of other compatible charset pairs is really short. If users use Gmail in Hindi (tested only Devanagari version), their emails are composed in utf-8. SquirrelMail can display those symbols in any translations (I can't give 100% warranty for Japanese). -- Tomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
