[horde] Still encoding problems
Robert Wagner
robert at duff.de
Thu Aug 21 05:35:40 UTC 2014
Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
> Quoting Robert Wagner <robert at duff.de>:
>
>> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Quoting Robert Wagner <robert at duff.de>:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> i am expierencing problems when replying to html-mails with
>>>> "special-chars" sent from outlook with horde. Attached you will
>>>> find 3 Messages, i replied to the same mail with different mua
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> imp-sent.eml (replied using imp) - > all special chars scrambled
>>>
>>> Is there some reason you are not using 'UTF-8' as sending charset?
>>> This message is being sent as ISO-8859-1. Try removing any local
>>> 'sending_charset' pref you have
>>
>> I removed all sending_charset prefs, no change. But you are
>> pointing in the right direction. The mail i received was ISO-8859-1
>> encoded, - that seems to be default for german Outlook/Exchange
>> installations. If i change that to utf-8 in the sending outlook
>> everything works as expected.
>>
>> But as i have no control over the charset of incoming mail that
>> does not solve the problem. I found an older reply i made with
>> "Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H5 (6.1.6)", also ISO-8859-1,
>> that is ok. If i reply to the very same message with the current
>> install i get scrambled chars.
>>
>> i do not want to attach these mails for privacy reasons, but if it
>> will help debug i can send them to you privatly.
>
> I have plenty of examples of iso-8859-1 messages that contain
> non-ascii characters. And replying to these messages is working
> fine for me. (It both displays correctly in the compose window and
> in the outgoing message).
>
> Can you verify that they are actually being sent by IMP in UTF-8?
Hello,
they are sent in charset=ISO-8859-1 by imp, i.e. the same charset the
original message was sent. When i compose a fresh mail it is sent in
charset="utf-8"
robert
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