Hello all,
in the SquirrelMail installation I have inherited recently, we support
English and German, both with the ISO 8859-1 charset. When replying to
UTF8-encoded messages containing, for instane, german umlauts, there is
the usual charset problem.
I am preparing a new installation at the mome
On 09.02.2012 13:58, Juergen Nickelsen wrote:
> in the SquirrelMail installation I have inherited recently,
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> So, now my question is: are there any other consequences than the
> intended one I should be aware of when I set $lossy_encoding = true?
Sorry, I forgot: This is a 1.4.21.
Regards,
Juergen Nickelsen-3 wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> in the SquirrelMail installation I have inherited recently, we support
> English and German, both with the ISO 8859-1 charset. When replying to
> UTF8-encoded messages containing, for instane, german umlauts, there is
> the usual charset problem.
>
On 9 February 2012 17:04, Tomas Kuliavas wrote:
> lossy encoding improves existing situation, if webmail users handle only
> emails that contain texts in their native or similar language. For Germans
> with iso-8859-1 main problems are smart quotes and euro symbol.
Of course the sensible solutio
On 09.02.2012 18:04, Tomas Kuliavas wrote:
> If you reply to Cyrillic text, all text will be converted to ?.
Yes, I have tried exactly that, finally putting the spam in Russian to
some good use. :-)
> lossy encoding improves existing situation, if webmail users handle only
> emails that contain
On 09.02.2012 18:17, michael crane wrote:
> Of course the sensible solution is for everybody to use english.
Right. And use ASCII like God has created it. (Pardon my French. ;-)
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Juergen Nickelsen
Freie Universitaet Berlin, Zentraleinrichtung fuer Datenverarbeitung
Fabeckstrasse 32, 14195 Ber
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Juergen Nickelsen
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> in the SquirrelMail installation I have inherited recently, we support
> English and German, both with the ISO 8859-1 charset. When replying to
> UTF8-encoded messages containing, for instane, german umlauts, there is
> the
On 2012-02-09 19:38, Paul Lesniewski wrote:
> At some point in the next year, we'll start pushing harder to get all
> the SquirrelMail translations changed over to all utf-8.
That is a good thing! Recently I read someone stating, half-jokingly,
that there are only two kinds of character encoding
