> Squirrelmail 1.4.5, Courier on Fedora Core 3, in case it matters. > My default charset is set to utf-8 > > > I have some users who are Japanese who have noticed that since compose > switches the charset (to iso-2022-jp), unless the recipient (also on > squirrelmail), is displaying in Japanese, the characters are garbled. > > If I send japanese from my English (custom charset), everyone can see the > characters fine, regardless of their language setting. > > What I need is some way to make it so that Japanese composes in UTF-8 so > that recipients of any charset can display the messages properly. > > Is it as simple as editing the i18n.php and setting the charset for > Japanese to utf-8. I did that on a test box and it seems to resolve the > issue, but I am wondering what ramifications this will have on other > aspects of squirrelmail. > > Any ideas?
Japanese translation is very delicate thing. Translation is designed to use euc-jp internally and send emails in iso-2022-jp. I've warned Fedora devels that they must be careful when switching Japanese to utf-8. First thing that you must do, is to disable XTRA_CODE key in Japanese language description. It removes main Japanese specific functions. Second thing - grep through SquirrelMail source for 'ja_JP' and disable character set specific Japanese workarounds. I think functions/i18n.php, functions/page_header.php, functions/strings.php and some functions/decode/ files need fixes. You need 1.4.6-rc1 and php with mbstring support in order to create correct utf-8 email headers. And you will need modified extra decoding library in order to read other Japanese emails. Which Japanese email client can't read utf-8? I know only that some unnamed email software works only with iso-2022-jp. -- Tomas ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: [email protected] List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
