[imp] Character encoding problem in Dimp (1.1RC-2)

[hamina at dataseed.fi]

Lainaus Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Timo Hamina <hamina at dataseed.fi>:
>
>> Jan Schneider kirjoitti:
>>> Zitat von Timo Hamina <hamina at dataseed.fi>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hey,
>>>> I have been testing Horde Groupware Webmail Edition 1.1-RC2 and noticed
>>>> a character encoding problem when writing html-mail with FCKeditor as
>>>> the message composer (it didn't happen with Xinha).
>>>>
>>>> The problem occurs if I view that html-message as plain text in my
>>>> email-client (Thunderbird, Dimp etc.). Characters like öäå gets messed
>>>> up as the there is:
>>>>
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>>>> charset=ISO-8859-1
>>>>
>>>> in the mime message. However, the message body seems to be encoded in
>>>> utf-8 and that is why those characters gets messed up.
>>>>
>>>> Actually I checked FCkeditor and that page is in utf-8:
>>>> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
>>>>
>>>> So there seems to be a encoding mismatch between FCKeditor and Dimps
>>>> "message builder".
>>>>
>>>> P.S. I haven't changed any options or settings, except that I use
>>>> FCKeditor as the message composer.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Do you see this in IMP too when using the HTML editor? If yes, then it
>>> has been fixed since RC2.
>>>
>>> Jan.
>>>
>>>
>> I tried sending html-message from imp too, and there it didn't happen.
>> Happens only in dimp with fckeditor.
>
> I can't reproduce this. I see a difference though: FCK converts
> non-ascii characters to html entities if possible, Xinha doesn't. But
> that doesn't matter because html entities are charset-neutral.
>
Yes those messages are ok if I view them as html-message, but if I  
choose to view the message as plain text, those encoding problems  
occurs.
This isn't a big problem since html part of the message displays  
correctly, but obviously it is a little bug as the plain-text part is  
in wrong charset.

>> P.S. If I input some non iso-8859-1 characters (for example euro sign,
>> EUR) to subject field in dimp, it gets shown as guestion mark  (?) in
>> any email client I view that message. Seems to be ok on imp, if I choose
>> utf-8 encoding for the message.
>
> This is because you can't (yet) select the sending charset in DIMP. It
> uses the default charset, like iso-8859-1 for Finish. But this charset
> doesn't contain the euro sign for example.
>
Ah ok, good to know it will have option to select sending charset (as in IMP).
> Jan.

Regards,
Timo