[Tickets #4447] Re: Improper handling of character sets

Mon Mar 26 15:08:58 UTC 2007

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=4447
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 Ticket             | 4447
 Updated By         | paul at askerko.net
 Summary            | Improper handling of character sets
 Queue              | IMP
 Version            | 4.1.3
 Type               | Bug
 State              | Not A Bug
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Owners             | Jan Schneider
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paul at askerko.net (2007-03-26 08:08) wrote:

I recently changed hosting companies due to problems with web mail in
Russian, but the new company, which uses IMP 4.1 and Horde Framework 3.1,
also has the problem. I see this problem report, which is now 6 months
old. Is anyone working on this? Is fhere something I can do to help? I
have system programming experience and this issue is quite important to
me.

> Tested on Horde 3.1.3/IMP 4.1.3 with FireFox 1.5.0.7; Konqueror 
> 3.5.3; Opera 9.1
>
> Scenario:
>
> Two users: one has the Russian language set as Preferred in Global 
> Options > Locale; the second has Spanish (Espanol) set as Preferred 
> language in Global Options > Locale.
>
> The Russian User composes an email using the Cyrillic character set 
> but changes the Charset option in the composition window to UTF-8 and 
> sends it to the Spanish locale user. When the Spanish locale user 
> receives the message, instead of seeing the Cyrillic character set, 
> only question marks (?) are displayed.
>
> The Spanish user then replies to the Russian User, changes the 
> Charset to Russian in the composition window, and sends the message. 
> What the Russian User receives is garbage, as show below:
> &#1057;&#1090;&#1072;&#1090;&#1100;&#1080; 
> &#1086;&#1073;&#1099;&#1095;&#1085;&#1086;
>
&#1085;&#1077;&#1089;&#1077;&#1088;&#1100;&#1105;&#1079;&#1085;&#1099;&#1081;
> &#1082;&#1090;&#1086; &#1085;&#1086;, &#1074;&#1072;&#1089; 
> &#1087;&#1086;&#1082;&#1072;
> &#1074;&#1086;&#1086;&#1073;&#1097;&#1077;
>
> The original Cyrillic based message is viewable with other email 
> clients (Squirrelmail, Gmail, for example), but can only be viewed by:
>
> 1. The Spanish User changing his locale to Russian in Global Options;
> 2. Clicking the link to open it in a new window, which only worked on 
> Konqueror, which opened it in Kate (a text editor).