[i18n] Re: International chars in emails?

[Carl Boberg]

I suspected as much.

But, this did not happen with horde 2.x and im 3.x?
What is the difference, And is there a possible workaround for theese 
type of broken emails?

/ Cheers
Carl

Jan Schneider wrote:
> 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.
>