[dev] [commits] Horde branch master updated. 4dbc410dcbf1ec823ff6e1b1199f6233f40d30d9

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>
>> 5005f22 RFC 3282: Add language header when sending a message
>
> It's a bit couragous to gather from the interface language to the  
> content language. I feel personally insulted. ;-)

Not entirely.  I agree that I was a bit aggressive to assume message  
text created by a user will be in the same language of the interface -  
so that is an incorrect assumption.  BUT... the code could be tweaked  
so that if the user does a spellcheck on the message text, we DO know  
what language the message is in.  And for canned messages (e.g.  
auto-generated messages from gettext strings), we also know the  
language.

> No, honestly, if you really want to add this, you need to implement  
> some language detection, e.g.  
> http://pear.php.net/package/Text_LanguageDetect/. But what's the use  
> of this header at all? Seems to be adding overhead for nothing.

I can actually think of several things you can do with the  
information.  It can be informational ("This message is in Spanish";  
display flag icon for message).  Or it can provide the default spell  
check language value when composing a message back to this user.

More important, it is irrelevant what uses WE can make for the header;  
it is the uses we haven't thought of that are important.  (And it is  
important enough that the IMAP spec goes out of its way to provide  
this information when doing a BODYSTRUCTURE command).  RFC 3282 is a  
well-established header so we should support it as much as possible.

What intrigues me is the other header defined in RFC 3282:  
Accept-Language.  I definitely see IMP/Horde having a preference  
listing languages that are acceptable for conversations; this list of  
languages is used in generating the Accept-Language header; an MUA can  
then inform the recipient that the sender prefers replies in the  
following languages.

michael