[Tickets #7244] Re: problem with umlaut characters in prefs.php

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/7244
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  Ticket             | 7244
  Updated By         | Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
  Summary            | problem with umlaut characters in prefs.php
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | HEAD
  Type               | Bug
  State              | Not A Bug
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             |
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Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> (2008-08-28 12:38) wrote:

>> What's wrong with that? It's the expected behavior.
>
> with unix OS depending on your distribution / OS vendor your shell's
> encoding settings can differ (ISO-8859-15, UTF-8, etc.) and that has
> consequences for special characters (above the 8-bit threshold) in
> prefs.php/conf.php

All of this is irrelevant.  There is only one charset that can be used  
for folder prefs - UTF7-IMAP (see RFC 3501 [5.1.3]).  You need to  
convert your folder name to this charset.

That being said, we should probably put comments in prefs.php for  
every folder pref we have to make this clear.