[imp] Wrong character encoding in folder list

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von LÉVAI Dániel <leva at ecentrum.hu>:

> Jan Schneider wrote:
>> Zitat von LÉVAI Dániel <leva at ecentrum.hu>:
>>> Jan Schneider wrote:
>>>> Zitat von LÉVAI Dániel <leva at ecentrum.hu>:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> I have this problem with Horde-3.3.2 and IMP-4.3.2:
>>>>>
>>>>> The left-side folder list has some folders, whos names contains  
>>>>> localized characters. This is displayed correctly when I select  
>>>>> the "English (American)" language entry on the login page from  
>>>>> the dropdown menu. But when I choose my locale, which is  
>>>>> "Magyar" (Hungarian), the folders won't display the correct  
>>>>> characters. It's like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> With "English (American)" locale:
>>>>> Ügyfél
>>>>>
>>>>> With "Magyar" locale:
>>>>> &ANw-gyf&AOk-l
>>>>>
>>>>> The latter is the same displaying as with the folder's name on  
>>>>> the filesystem:
>>>>> # ls -1 user/Maildir/
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> .&ANw-gyf&AOk-l/
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> Does this only happen with special folders, or with any folders  
>>>> containing non-ascii chars?
>>>>
>>> What do you mean by special folder? If you're asking if this is a  
>>> Sent/Trash etc.. folder, then no; this folder is an immediate  
>>> subfolder under the Maildir root dir (or under the Mail entry in  
>>> IMP's left sidebar). It is right under INBOX. It is a "handmade"  
>>> folder :) Hope I make sense.
>>
>> It has to be an issue with your mail server then, because non-ascii  
>> characters in regular folders work perfectly fine in the latest  
>> (and any older) release.
>
> But if it is working with one locale (English (american)), and it  
> doesn't with another (Magyar), how could this be a bug in my  
> mailserver?

No idea. But changing the language also changes the system locale, and  
this might have any side-effects. And of course, you have the  
iconv/mbstring extensions installed, don't you?

> Btw, I'm using Dovecot's IMAP server, which stores the folder names  
> in a modified UTF-7 charset (which is a standard way, as I  
> understand).

Correct.

Jan.

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