RE: help: chinese hanzi characters in webmail

Isn't it possible to set the encoding of what Squirrelmail sends out to
UTF-8 so it'll work for all languages of the world?  (If I had to pick one
encoding, that would be my favorite.)
 
Simon wrote:
> Solution:
> 
> Squirrelmail appears to have two methods of setting character 
> set preferences.  
> 
> The most obvious, in the config.php file, ships with 
> iso-8559-1 as the default character set.  Changing this 
> setting to gb2312 in the config.php file does not fix the problem.
> 
> The second and less-obvious method is successful.  On a 
> per-client basis, Squirrelmail allows an encoding setting to 
> be changed under Options/Display Settings/General Display 
> Options/Language.  A pull-down menu gives a long list of 
> languages, including "Simplified Chinese".
> 
> Making this change switches the user interface to Simplified 
> Chinese (as one would expect with for a "Display Option").  
> What this setting also does is that it correctly switches the 
> encoding "Character-Type" value in outbound email headers to gb2312.
> 
> This means that Outlook correctly switches received messages 
> to gb2312 Character-Type, and the Hanzi displays properly.
> 
> Note that no change needs to be made in the browser's 
> encoding preferences (although making the change to gb2312 
> user interface obviously requires the browser to be set to a 
> compatible character set so that the UI is readable.
> But this should be automatic.)
> 
> Thanks to Ken Wong and Matteo.