[i18n] Re: International chars in emails?

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Carl Boberg <carl at blackside.org>:

> Here is the problem:
>
> Mail from yahoo.com, hotmail.com and others like them usually send mail with
> encoding in us-ascii even though it is chars in them that are of
> international
> type (like åäö). When theese mails come in to IMP 4 their international
> chars  show up as ?.
> If I then use the webbrowsers view sttings for char encoding and set it to
> us-ascii the ? turns in to their correct letters. But if I do that the
> rest of
> IMPs menus and such that have international chars get screwed up...
> So it either look at the odd email correct with forced encoding setting
> in the
> browser or view most emails and IMP correctly (in UTF-8 I think) but
> then odd
> email looks funny.
>
> I have tested this thoroughly.

Yeah, these mails are simply broken and not RFC compliant.

> Question is; Is this also affecting the way IMP/Horde verifies passwords
> against
> /etc/passwd? Since my original problem was that users with international
> swedish
> chars in his/her password couldnt login.

No, these have nothing to do with each other.

Jan.

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