Re: Problems with recoding while squirrelmail output charset is utf-8

On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Peter V=E1gner <[email protected]> wr=
ote:
> Hello,
> I am on debian wheezy and. I have set squirrelmail to english with default
> character set iso-8859-1. It works fine. However when I login to
> squirrelmail, change the squirrelmail language to something else handling=
 of
> emails breaks. For example many of my users are likelly to use slovak
> language which sets squirrelmail language to slovak and encoding to utf-8.
> After changing squirrelmail language to slovak I am unable to read messag=
es,
> display names and other fields when there are some non ascii characters
> inside and the email is not utf-8 encoded. It appears as the field where
> such content should appears becomes blank. Usually emails contain both te=
xt
> only and html parts. This happens after I change to any language where
> corresponding character set is utf-8.

Thanks for the detailed report.  Can you please provide a sample
message?  You are using version 1.4.23-SVN - a *recent* snapshot?  If
so, can you try with the following patch on top of the snapshot?

http://sourceforge.net/p/squirrelmail/bugs/_discuss/thread/feebafb3/4a28/at=
tachment/quoted_printable_fix-1.4.x-version_2.diff

> Below are some details.
>
>
> Packages:
> postfix        2.9.6-2      amd64
> dovecot-imapd  1:2.1.7-7    amd64
> apache2        2.2.22-13    amd64
> php5           5.4.4-14+deb all
> squirrelmail   2:1.4.23~svn all
> squirrelmail-locales 1.4.18-20090 all
> squirrelmail-viewashtml 3.8-3        all
>
> # locale -a
> C
> C.UTF-8
> POSIX
> en_US.utf8
> sk_SK
> sk_SK.cp1250
> sk_SK.iso88592
> sk_SK.utf8
> slovak
>
>
> # squirrelmail configuration
> $squirrelmail_default_language =3D 'en_US';
> $default_charset       =3D 'iso-8859-1';
> $lossy_encoding        =3D true;
> $imap_server_type       =3D 'dovecot';
> $allow_charset_search     =3D true;
>
> phpinfo attached.
>
> Squirrelmail configtest.php output
> SquirrelMail version:   1.4.23 [SVN]
> Config file version:    1.4.0
> Config file last modified:      07 August 2013 13:23:46
> Checking PHP configuration...
>     PHP version 5.4.4-14+deb7u3 OK.
>     Running as root(0) / root(0)
>     display_errors:
>     error_reporting: 22527
>     variables_order OK: GPCS.
>     PHP extensions OK. Dynamic loading is disabled.
> Checking paths...
>     Data dir OK.
>     Attachment dir OK.
>     Plugins OK.
>     Themes OK.
>     Default language OK.
>     Base URL detected as: (location base autodetected)
> Checking outgoing mail service....
>     SMTP server OK (220 web3.mydomain.com ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU))
> Checking IMAP service....
>     IMAP server ready (* OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR
> LOGIN-REFERRALS ID ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=3DPLAIN AUTH=3DLOGIN] Dovecot
> ready.)
>     Capabilities: * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 LITERAL+ SASL-IR LOGIN-REFERRALS=
 ID
> ENABLE IDLE STARTTLS AUTH=3DPLAIN AUTH=3DLOGIN
> 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.
> Checking database functions...
>     not using database functionality.

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Paul Lesniewski
SquirrelMail Team
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