[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         | m.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de
  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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m.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de (2008-08-28 15:12) 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.

ah... ok.

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

as the prefs.php etc. files will only be maintained by (h+p)ostmasters  
this will probably suffice.

thx,
mike