[dev] getLanguageCharset

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Ronan SALMON <rsalmon at mbpgroup.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> using IMP5.0-git traditional mode, when I compose a new message, I  
> can't send the euro sign. The charset seems to be *guessed* over  
> here :
>
> framework/Core/lib/Horde/Registry.php: function getLanguageCharset()
>
> this function will return charset 'ISO-8859-1' if everything else fails.
>
> Shouldn't this return 'UTF8' ? (or at least 'ISO-8859-15')

It might make sense to default this to UTF-8 too now, but this is  
completely unrelated and doesn't have anything to do with the message  
sending charset. We explicitly don't want to use UTF-8 there, but the  
language's preferred email charset, to achieve best interoperability  
with other, not-so-capable email clients.

If you want to use the euro sign, set your message charset to  
iso-8859-15. One might still argue whether it makes more sense to -15  
instead of -1 at least for West-European languages, but I don't have a  
good answer for this.

We already require the *local* system to support UTF-8 in Horde 4. I'm  
not sure if the world is ready for us to require *remote* systems to  
support UTF-8 too.

Jan.

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