[imp] problem with attachments in unicode (UTF16)

[Philip Steeman]

I did some more small tests (perhaps not very usefull)

- webmail used from my Belgian provider: unicode is encoded in base64 
(so OK!). Really don't know what software it is.
- tried it with squirrelmail. Got a php-error with unicode attachments 
(not with normal textfiles). I'm not a squirrelmail wizzard, I installed 
it from debian-packages in a hurry.
- when you test it with a standard Linux-command
   file -i unicode.txt
   it says:
> linux% file -i unicode.txt
> unicode.txt: text/plain; charset=utf-16

So the file-utility gets it right (as does the webmail of my provider).

Philip

Jan Schneider schreef:
> Zitat von Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz at uni-konstanz.de>:
> 
>>> That
>>> attachment-charset field would be preset to the value resulting
>>> from the procedure outlined above, but would provide an
>>> opportunity to override the preset value.
>> On second thought, I am not sure whether this is feasable:
>> This would amount to reading the file, via JavaScript, immediately
>> after it has been selected, and before it is uploaded. I have not
>> delved enough into JavaScript to assess the feasibility of this
>> approach. But if JavaScript code is used to guess the encoding
>> of the text file to be uploaded, the second step proposed above
>> does not apply; rather, the JavaScript code should be able to
>> find the system codepage, directly.
> 
> This won't work of course, because you can't read local files with JavaScript.
> 
> Jan.
>