Juergen Edner wrote: > > Hello, > more and more ofter I'm receiving utf-8 encoded e-mail. As soon as > I try to answer one all german special characters are not converted > properly. > I've tried to find out why the conversion doesn't work properly but, > except a lot of postings describing the same effect, I found no ready > to use solution for that problem. I also read the information given on > this web page but I'm not sure how to interpret it: > http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/SupportedCharsets > > Does this mean that the conversation mechanism will not work until > the german languages files of Squirrelmail have been converted to > utf-8? > > On this page it's also written that the languages and the corresponding > charsets are defined in functions/i18n.php but this file is not used > anymore with SM v1.5.2svn. Does a replacement file exist for it? > include/languages.php and locale/*/setup.php Keyword is 'lossy encoding'. Turn it on in SquirrelMail configuration. Then you will get question marks instead of garbage and best possible lossy conversion results. By default SquirrelMail converts emails in replies/forwards only when target character set supports all or most of symbols used in source charset and conversion does not require large mapping tables. Source charset comes from email, target charset comes from translation selected by end user. If source charset is utf-8, only two target charsets can match its character table size. It is other utf-8 :) and gb18030. Technically even other common Unicode flavors (utf7, utf16, ucs) can't cover entire utf-8 range. gb18030 to unicode mapping table is huge due to backward compatibility with gb2312. Convert German translation to utf-8, see locale/de_DE/ and help/de_DE/ files or turn on lossy encoding. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/SM-v1.5.2svn---answering-utf-8-encoded-e-mail-generates-rubbish-tp30866721p30870483.html Sent from the squirrelmail-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb ----- 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
