[horde] Trean, problem with character encoding

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Mon Jan 21 19:11:27 UTC 2008


Quoting Marcus <hordelist at quantentunnel.de>:

> i was using an old trean 0.1-cvs and it works fine. Now i changed to
> Horde Webmail 1.1 RC1 and tried a trean snapshot from 07.01.2008 (
> 1.0-cvs).
>
> I moved the bookmarks out of the datatree with the provided script
> (2006-12-29_sql_bookmarks.php). Now all vowels (ä,ü,ö etc.) in the
> bookmark title and descripton are broken, they show up as symbol for
> unknow character in seamonkey. Switching the webbrowser charset from
> UTF-8 to ISO-8859-15 solves the problem. I guess this isn't the right
> solution. Vowels in foldernames are always ok.
>
> Watching the table trean_bookmarks with phpMyAdmin, shows all bookmarks
> with the right charset, so moving them out of the datatree wasn't the
> problem.
>
> When editing /creating a bookmark, vowels are stored with the wrong
> charset, as they show up as wired character in phpMyAdmin.
>
> Has anyone experienced the same, should i file a bug?

Yes please - looks like the convertCharset calls are missing from the  
SQL driver.

-chuck


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