[imp] Chinese folder name display problem

David Chang david at thbuo.gov.tw
Fri Mar 28 10:18:47 PST 2003


Jan:Many thanks

David Chang

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¤Þ¥Î Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Quoting David Chang <david at thbuo.gov.tw>:
> 
> > ¤Þ¥Î Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
> >
> > > So why don't you enable the utf support? This is a great step forward
> > > especially for all users with "non-standard" charsets. Why don't you
> > use
> > > this feature?
> > >
> > > The iconv extension can't handle utf7-imap charsets and the mbstring
> > > extension can't handle Big5 and Cyrillic charsets, so we can't convert
> > > between them. UTF-8 if working perfectly.
> > >
> > > Jan.
> > >
> >
> > Enable UTF-8 will have more problems (compare with disable UTF-8)such as
> > :
> > 1.Date field display problem in mailbox
> >   see http://210.241.49.67/~txg16/tmp/wrong_mailbox.jpg
> 
> Fixed in CVS.
> 
> > 2.Calendar's name,Notepad's name & Task Lists's name did not display
> > correctly
> >   see http://210.241.49.67/~txg16/tmp/wrong_name.jpg
> 
> Works fine here. At least if you create the the calendars with utf support
> enabled. See my attached screenshot.
> 
> > 3.Some of mail's subject or From did not display correctly
> >   see http://210.241.49.67/~txg16/tmp/wrong_subject.jpg
> >   and eml file http://210.241.49.67/~txg16/tmp/wrong_subject.eml
> >
> > 4.Some of mail's text did not display correctly
> >  see http://210.241.49.67/~txg16/tmp/wrong_text.jpg
> >   and eml file http://210.241.49.67/~txg16/tmp/wrong_text.eml
> 
> Both messages are invalid encoded. They have no charset information in the
> header resp. in the body. That's why they are displayed "as is", the only
> valid option for every mail client.
> 
> > 5.In gollem(ftp & mysql backend),file name did not look right,if it's
> > original
> > file name is Chinese format.
> >   see http://210.241.49.67/~txg16/tmp/wrong_gollem.jpg
> 
> I have no idea how Big5 encoded filenames are stored on an FTP server so I
> can't help out here, but I'll take a closer look at the sql driver.
> 
> Jan.
> 
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