[i18n] Re: Japanese support (with IMAP)

Jan Schneider jan at horde.org
Fri Mar 7 14:32:02 PST 2003


Quoting Isamu Yamamoto <yamamoto at trustbee.com>:

> >Yes definitely. There is no need for a Japanese localized version
> anymore as
> >we now support theoretically every charset, even multibyte ones.
> 
> Yes, I also think so.
> However, there is lot of codes for conversion Japanese character,
> it is inadequate just to replace a message by ja_JP.po.
> 
> Therefore, I made as a Japanese version now.
> In the future, I want to merge to original version.
> 
> This is the code for conversion Japanese character which I am using.
> What code should I use?
> if ($GLOBAL['language'] == 'ja_JP') {
> 	$msg = mb_convert_encoding($msg, ...)
> }

That's not so easy to answer as it depends on the whole charset/locale
infrastructure available in HEAD.

But basically you can now do something like 
String::convertCharset($msg, $from_charset, $to_charset)

Jan.

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