Re: Attachment with non-english characters disappears when forwarding

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Nils Olav Brandstorp Bekken
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I've got 3 servers running Debian Etch with Squirrelmail 1.4.17
> where Squirrelmail shows some strange behaviour.
>
> When users receive email with attachments and click forward and then
> "send" or "save as draft", the attachments sometimes disappears. I've
> managed to reproduce the error with one email I found containing pdf
> files with the Norwegian characters æ,ø and å.

Hi Nils - sorry for the delayed response.  I believe this has been
fixed since you reported it.  If you are still experiencing this with
the latest version of SquirrelMail, please let us know.  Thanks!

> When viewing this email, everything looks ok (filenames and all) but
> when I click forward, the norwegian characters in the filename is
> replaced with ? Message details says quoted printable on the message and
> base64 for the attachments.
>
> Sending and receiving attachments containing æ,ø or å in the filename,
> from and to an account on these installations is no problem.
>
> I've tested with Squirrelmail 1.4.11 and everything worked ok with the
> same email, so I think it might have something to do with the change
> from iso8859-1 to utf-8 in Norwegian Bokmål
>
> Software: Squirrelmail 1.4.17 PHP 5.2.0-8+etch13, Apache2 2.2.3-4+etch6
>
> the configtest.php i18n output (no errors from the rest of the output as
> far as I can see):
>> Checking internationalization (i18n) settings...
>>>      gettext - Gettext functions are available. On some systems you must have appropriate system locales compiled.
>>>      mbstring - Mbstring functions are available.
>>>      recode - Recode functions are available.
>>>      iconv - Iconv functions are available.
>>>      timezone - Webmail users can change their time zone settings.
>
> locale.gen contains this:
>
> en_US ISO-8859-1
> en_US UTF-8
> nb_NO ISO-8859-1
> nb_NO.UTF-8 UTF-8
> no_NO.UTF-8 UTF-8
> no_NO ISO-8859-1
> nn_NO.UTF-8 UTF-8
> nn_NO ISO-8859-1
> da_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8
> da_DK ISO-8859-1
> de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8
> de_DE ISO-8859-1
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance

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