[imp] Japanese character support

[Daniel Wyss]

This problem is best described in this tread:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=imp&m=93077403831705&w=2

If you diff the html source and the message source you will see something
like:
$B$?$@:#!"%
$B$?$@:#!"%

Imp takes the " and converts it to html as quot; therefore mangling the
characters.
I suggest opening up the "Message Source" (in the PARTS field) to view these
types of multi-byte characters.
I tested it out on your site and it appears to be working just fine.

My system, Win2000 sp2, IE 6.0.2600.0000 (just released), all language packs
are installed, Netscape 6.1 works too 

-Daniel Wyss
 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Niels Peuyn [mailto:peuyn@oberon.net] 
Sent:	Tuesday, August 28, 2001 11:19 AM
To:	imp@lists.horde.org
Subject:	Re: [imp] Japanese character support

Hello,
> 
> If you use Internet Explorer and have the appropriate language pack
> installed, it is possible to view messages encoded with different
character
> sets. Here is a link to some documentation I have written up for our
system.
> 
> http://www.colorado.edu/ITS/docs/webmail/data1.html#13
> 
> Basically, you can open the message source and then choose the type of
> encoding to view it with for example Japanese, or, if you use IE,
> right-click in the frame that contains the message and select the encoding
> from the menu that pops up.

Some japanese characters are encoded not correct
e.g   "." (dot) or "?" (question mark) are displayed,
instead of jap. char. Sometimes a wrong jap. character
is displayed as well.

We tried encoding:
-  ISO-2022-JP  (poor result)
-  ISO-2022-JP-2  (garbage are displayed)
-  Shift-JIS  (..)
-  EUC-JP  (..)
  
For test message please check: (test account for IMP 2.2.6)
   -  Host: webmail.oberon.net
   -  POP-ID: chuck@europe.jis.de
   -  POP-PW: sodiciHE
   There are japanese emails in the Inbox.

We checked with:
-  Client OS: 
   o  Windows98 German, Japanese
   o  Windows2000 Japanese
   o  FreeBSD 4.2
-  Browser: IE5.0 German, Japanese
   o  Netscape 4.75 German, Japanese

Current IMP 2.2.6 configuration:
-  Setting in *lang.php3*
   o  $lang->charset['jp'] = 'ISO-2022-JP';
   

Thanks for help 
Niels Peuyn
Oberon.net Netzwerksysteme GmbH

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