Re: Change of SM default_charset to UTF-8

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Fredrik Jervfors
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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.

My previous suggestion was to turn 1.5.3 into UTF-only.  Leave 1.5.2
as-is and make the full change in 1.5.3 (not just default charset).

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