>>>I just came accross a problem while using squirrelmail with non roman >>>alphabet. >>> >>>As far as I understand this problem, squirrelmail "writes" the messages >>>in HTML using the unicode code for a carracter: long vowel "a" in Hindi >>>is coded आ for instance. But somewhere, the carracter "&" is >>>HTML-ized : & so, the person who receives the mail, read आ >>>instead of the Hindi carracter because the source code is: आ >>> >>>Is there somebody to give a clue on where the transformation of "&" in >>>"&" is done? Browser? Script php? Anywhere-else? >> >> >> If you use characters unsupported by character set used in html page, >> your >> Gecko engine based browser sends them as html entities. Change character >> set used by translation. > > I don't understand too much this answer: if I use thunderbird to send a > message (tb is gecko based as far as I know), I can read this message > correctly in both thunderbird and squirrelmail. > > If I use squirrelmail to write, I can see the "exotic" carracters while > I write,
Sorry. Recheck what you are saying. You can't see characters unsupported by your translation's character set in compose window. SquirrelMail 1.4.9a converts unsupported characters to question marks or displays them in raw broken form. You can type those characters, but they are not part of email you are replying to. If you type Chinese characters in stock SquirrelMail French translation, they will be send as html entities. You will send 道 instead of 道. If you reply to email written in Chinese, 道 will be displayed as question mark or as broken 8bit text. > but once the message sent, the code corrupted : why "&" is > translated as "&" when it is sent by squirrelmail and not by > thunderbird? There is some inconsistency here: "&" is also an escape > carracter in html and should not be translated in html entity... SquirrelMail does not create html emails by default. All emails are in plain text and ampersand is displayed as &. If plain text email contains आ, it is displayed as आ and not as आ. Plain text emails don't support html entities in message body. If you use symbols unsupported by character set used in form, Mozilla browsers send them as html entities. SquirrelMail does not convert them to html. Your browser does that when you submit form information. I don't know how IE reacts to unsupported Chinese or Urdu symbols in forms, but it converts Arabic and Russian to other character set. > Is squirrelmail not at all used in China for instance? (This is the > origin of my question: some Chinese people complain that they cannot use > the squirrelmail I installed on a server they use). Yes, you can use SquirrelMail in Chinese. Chinese SquirrelMail just does not work out of the box on some loose PHP install you throw it. CJK interface has more requirements to PHP install and has some quirks. If you want to use SquirrelMail in CJK environment, you should follow recommended and not minimal requirements. mbstring support is required. chinese will need php 4.3.0+ mbstring extension. extra decoding library needs recode or at least iconv support. Chinese SquirrelMail works, if you use chinese or utf-8 based translations and admin installs extra decoding library to handle other character sets in utf-8 based translations. Chinese Simplified translation should work with GB2312-EUC symbols. Extended GBK and GB18030 symbols are not supported in Chinese Simplified translation. UTF-8 emails are displayed correctly, but not supported if you reply in Chinese Simplified translation. UTF-8 based translations can read Chinese charsets and replies work, if extra decoding library can handle used Chinese character set. Possible issues - wrapping of text without whitespace, downloaded attachment names in IE and lack of chinese support in SquirrelMail encoding functions. Also most of distributions don't enable recode extension in PHP. Please keep conversation on mailing list. I will ignore personal replies or forward your replies back to mailing list. -- Tomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
