>-----Pôvodná správa----- >Turn on lossy encoding in SquirrelMail configuration. ISO-8859-2 does not >cover all UTF-8 characters. By default SquirrelMail does not do charset >conversions when target charset is subset of source charset. > >If you have policy of using utf-8 in all outgoing emails, convert >SquirrelMail to utf-8 and it will start using utf-8.
Thanks for the advice, I tried with lossy encoding and it works fine now. But: this way I fixed our local squirrelmail installation. Still, there are many installations not using this setting and from them we're getting corrupted replies to our utf-8 mails. With lossy encoding set, squirrelmail behaves exactly like mutt - converts every slovak text properly regardles of charset used and replaces unknown chars with '?' Thus I wonder why is this behaviour not the default, IMHO it has several important advantages: 1. user selecting Slovak translation can be sure he can correctly reply to any slovak text 2. if he receives email in another language, he can simply switch the translation to that language and again reply correctly regardles of charset 3. this behaviour is "industry standard", no other email client is changing charset without converting the text 4. without this setting, also windows-1250 emails get broken, as 1/3 of slovak national characters are at different positions than in iso-8859-2 5. by some googling I found that squirrelmail rpm's for Linux are already converted to utf-8 - but this means there's huge interoperability issue between those versions and standard version which is using iso-8859-2 for slovak translation and does not convert from utf-8 into it by default. Thus, may I suggest that lossy encoding behaviour is hardcoded to be the default as soon as possible? Thanks Miro ------------------- MAPY.SK - Najpresnejsie vyhladavanie aj podla cisiel domu, planovanie trasy. http://mapy.atlas.sk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: [email protected] List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
