Re: Change of SM default_charset to UTF-8

2009/5/4 Németh Tamás <[email protected]>:
> Instead of switching every language to utf-8, I would suggest to enable system
> admins to set the charset for the currently used language, not just the
> default_charset,

This is totally impossible - you need to convert all locales, all
helpfiles and modify
functions/i18n.php for that. Translated strings in e.g. latin-2 charset can't be
properly displayed in latin-1 and vice versa. That's why default_charset can
only be configured with English, where all strings are plain 7-bit ASCII.

Your only choices are:
 1. broken emails, or
 2. UTF-8.

There's no third option, sorry. Even lossy_encoding won't help - try replying to
russian email and you'll get a screen full of ?????????.

To sum up - the sooner we switch to UTF-8, the better. Any modern webmail
is doing exactly that. BTW, Fedora SM packages are converted to UTF-8 for years
and known to work fine.

My suggestion for 1.4.18: let's try to release two versions: legacy and utf-8
This way anyone could choose. No extra work is required, utf-8 version could be
autogenerated by a script.

Petr

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