[i18n] Re: International chars in emails?

[Carl Boberg]

Wait,
I dont get this? Looking at the emails from yahoo for example they have 
do have charset us-ascii defined in them...but contain non us-ascii 
chars (since it is written in swedish).

Are you saying that I can somehow force theese emails to another 
charset, say ISO-8859-1? If so, how?

Or have I misunderstood you completely :-)

/Carl

Jan Schneider wrote:
> Zitat von Carl Boberg <carl at blackside.org>:
> 
> 
>>I suspected as much.
>>
>>But, this did not happen with horde 2.x and im 3.x?
> 
> 
> Because the old versions couldn't handle different charsets at all, and you
> happened to use the same charset with your translation as these messages
> use.
> 
> 
>>What is the difference, And is there a possible workaround for theese
>>type of broken emails?
> 
> 
> The workaround would be to allow user-defined default charsets that will be
> used if no other charset is set in the message. Currently we (RFC
> compliant) imply that all messages that don't specify a charset are
> US-ASCII.
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Jan.
>