Re: Change of SM default_charset to UTF-8

> Hi all,
>
> seeing that 3 more languages are going to switch to UTF-8 for SM 1.4.18,
> I'd like to propose to switch the SM's default_charset to UTF-8 as well.
>
> The definition for it resides in config/config_default.php and I suggest
> to modify it as follows:
>
> ------------------
>
> /**
> * Default Charset
> *
> * This option controls what character set is used when sending mail
> * and when sending HTML to the browser. By default it's set to 'utf-8',
> * which ensures that mail written in any charset could be handled
> correctly. *
> * This option is active *ONLY* when default language is en_US. In other
> * cases SquirrelMail uses charset that depends on default language.
> * See $squirrelmail_default_language
> *
> * If you're seeing any strange problems with UTF-8, you might try to set
> * the default charset to 'iso-8859-1'.
> * @global string $default_charset
> */
> $default_charset = 'utf-8';
>
> ----------------------
>
> The above change will have zero impact on existing installations, since
> this template file is used just for fetching defaults during first SM
> installation. Anyway, I do belive that setting this to UTF-8 is a good way
> to express our common preference for UTF-8 and initiate migration towards
> it.
>
> What do you think?

Personally I like it, Miro. It has been discussed before and it can
certainly be done in the development version. As for 1.4.18 I'm not sure.
I'd like to have some testing time in 1.5.2 SVN first.

What do the rest of the list think? If I see no objections I'll go ahead
and commit your suggested change to 1.5.2.

Sincerely,
Fredrik

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