Zitat von Gunnar Wrobel <[email protected]>:
Quoting Jan Schneider <[email protected]>:
Zitat von Gunnar Wrobel <[email protected]>:
Hi!
When removing the various locales on the base system where Horde 3
is installed I can break the message preview in DIMP. Pretty much
the same thing described in http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/5955
That issue is however closed as not being a bug and I'm not
certain I understand the issue completely so I thought I ask here.
Horde 3 is running on Ubuntu 10.04 and I removed the locales with
these commands ...
apt-get remove locales
rm -rf /usr/lib/locale/*.utf8
... cleared the Horde cache afterwards ....
rm /tmp/cache_*
... and restarted the apache server:
/etc/init.d/apache restart
For messages that contain German Umlauts (that were displayed fine
before) the DIMP preview is empty now. At the same time I get this
stack trace in the PHP error log:
[25-Aug-2011 17:14:02] PHP Warning: json_encode() [<a
href='function.json-encode'>function.json-encode</a>]: Invalid
UTF-8 sequence in argument in /www/client/imp/lib/JSON.php on line
86
[25-Aug-2011 17:14:02] PHP Stack trace:
[25-Aug-2011 17:14:02] PHP 1. {main}() /www/client/dimp/imp.php:0
[25-Aug-2011 17:14:02] PHP 2. IMP::sendHTTPResponse()
/www/client/dimp/imp.php:767
[25-Aug-2011 17:14:02] PHP 3. IMP_Serialize_JSON::encode()
/www/client/imp/lib/IMP.php:1883
[25-Aug-2011 17:14:02] PHP 4. json_encode()
/www/client/imp/lib/JSON.php:86
As far as I understand it so far the following happens:
When the application gets pushed in the Registry the code tries to
set the language environment (NLS::setLang()). This method will
try to enable the correct locale but will also check that the
locale with the current character set set actually exists. In case
the browser supports "utf" the system will try for character set
"UTF-8".
Since I removed those locales however NLS::setLang() will fall
back to a working character set. In my case the 'ISO-8859-1'
charset. After that NLS::getCharset() will always return this value.
Once the system tries to show the message preview it looks at the
message converts it to the current character set ('ISO-8859-1')
and pipes it into json_encode(). The latter one chokes as it
expects UTF-8 and the preview breaks.
I don't think I have the full picture yet so I'm mainly asking if
my observation could be correct. If yes, is this to be expected
and should the user just ensure that all locales are present in
UTF-8? Or is this something that could easily be fixed?
This is the expected behavior. We require UTF-8 support of the
system for Horde 4 which basically means UTF-8 locales if using
translations. I was sure this was even mentioned in the
prerequisites section of INSTALL, or at least in TRANSLATIONS, but
obviously not.
In the Horde 3 INSTALL instructions there is a small paragraph
saying "If you still see this problem after upgrading PHP, your
server may have incorrect locale information. See `Bug #5955`_ for
further information." But that is specifically targeted at the
preview problem.
For Horde 3 this means I will just ensure we make the necessary
instructions more prominent in the Kolab server installation text.
But for Horde 4 I could imagine a few improvements as we seem to
have no problem detecting the locales present:
1) Add a test for this in test.php so that the admin immediately
sees which translations/charsets are actually available. This test
should fail if there is no UTF-8 support in any locale.
2) We should disable the language selection on the login screen for
languages not supported by the system.
Does that make sense or did I misinterpret your response?
No, this is actually a good idea. Though we probably need an FAQ entry
immediately then, to explain why there aren't any translations showing
up in the drop down list. ;-)
Jan.
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