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

Hello,

On 13.08.2013 10:07, Paul Lesniewski wrote:
> Further replies should go back on-list and in-line if you don't mind.
I apologize for sending you a private message. I was a bit afraid to =

post raw messages to the email list.

>> I am attaching two messages one which is rendered correctly when viewed =
in
>> squirrel mail and the other which only contains spaces where text should
>> appear. Even its subject when viewed in the inbox listing is not display=
ed
>> at all. This is how this behaves for all messages which are not UTF-8
>> encoded.
> Looks like the problem email has quoted-printable content in
> iso-8859-2, which is what that patch/tracker is for.
>
>> Can you please suggest on how to properly install a version you are
>> recommending to test? Currently I am just using default debian package. =
Can
>> I just extract recent 1.4.23 SVN snapshot, apply the patch over it using
>> patch command and then create another /alias in apache to point to it?
> Exactly.  You can also apply the patch by hand by looking at the lines
> to be added/removed.  You also don't need to change your web server
> configuration -- just put the test version in a parallel directory and
> access it directly.  Your configuration file should be fine if you use
> the same one for both versions.
>
> Note that the patch isn't a perfect solution, but does at least solve
> the problem of having nothing at all show up.
Thank you verry much for the prompt response. Your estimation was =

correct the patch you recommended to apply appears to solve my issue. =

Now I can use utf-8 languages in squirrel mail no mather how the =

received messages are encoded.
I have verified this by using slovak and czech squirrel mail languages.

Thank you verry much once again for great work and great support.


>
>> On 12.08.2013 20:42, Paul Lesniewski wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Peter V=E1gner <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 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 handl=
ing
>>>> 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
>>>> messages,
>>>> 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 whe=
re
>>>> such content should appears becomes blank. Usually emails contain both
>>>> text
>>>> 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/feebafb3/4a2=
8/attachment/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] Dov=
ecot
>>>> 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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