[imp] Problem with charsets (head)

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu
Wed Apr 7 09:40:05 PDT 2004


Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Jan Kuipers <jrkuipers at lauwerscollege.nl>:
>
>> Citeren Jan Kuipers <jrkuipers at lauwerscollege.nl>:
>>
>>> Regarding HEAD branch:
>>>
>>> When I receive a message which is written in a different charset as my own
>>> (ISO-8859-), I get this message:
>>>
>>> This message was written in a character set (windows-1257) other 
>>> than your own.
>>> If it is not displayed correctly, click here to open it in a new window.
>>>
>>> But when I click to open it in a new window, the charset (in the 
>>> new window)
>>> remains ISO-8859-1, so nothing changes. This works fine in the 
>>> stable version
>>> of imp. Any ideas?
>>
>> Didn't say this right. I meant the foreign charset isn't converted in
>> ISO-8859-1. When I convert a string with mb_convert_encoding all works
>> fine, so
>> I wonder why this doesn't work in imp.
>
> You only get this message at all if your server does not support UTF-8 with
> the locale you selected. E.g. `LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8´ doesn't work.
>
> As the link says, the window should have the *original* charset and not be
> converted. That this doesn't happen is a bug.

Try what I just committed.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder


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