Re: Change of SM default_charset to UTF-8

2009/5/4 Németh Tamás <[email protected]>:
> According to my observations, locale files contain charset information, so
> SquirrelMail (or php behind the scenes) can do a charset translation on the
> fly. For example, I created utf-8 .mo files, and simply copied them into a
> plain ISO-8859-2 SM 1.4.17 installation, and all the messages were diplayed
> correctly.

Have you also recompiled the .po files? If not, your SM was still using .po
files from the ISO-8859-2 installation. Also have you copied the utf-8 help
files and tried to click on Help?

> The only problem I observed was, that I was
> unable to answer other messages than the ones composed in the same charset as
> mine

Yes, pure display is possible, but all operations (Reply, Forward)
fail. So indeed,
you can see everyone's message correctly, but your outgoing messages are broken.

> Yes, I know, but you would be able to correctly reply mails which are utf-8
> encoded, but doesn't contain any character not in you charset, and this wold
> be a big advantage.

Still not a decent solution. You get a mail from outside of CE
(latin-2) region and
your reply gets broken. It's really not nice to call your email recipient Bj?rn.

> You're right but It can be painful to change charset on an existing
> installation, as I've explained before.

It's still not clear whether this is not just your local problem. And if
it proves to be true, then it's one more argument for switching to UTF-8.
Imagine a user chooses English initially and then decides to change
to Hungarian - if you're right, his password will get broken as well as
all prefs, addressbooks etc.

Petr

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