[imp] Umlauts and character problems with html mails

Tue Mar 19 10:26:04 UTC 2013

Zitat von norbi <norbi at rocknob.de>:

> Am 13.03.2013 15:42, schrieb Jan Schneider:
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>> Zitat von norbi <norbi at rocknob.de>:
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>>> Am 13.03.2013 14:52, schrieb Jan Schneider:
>>>>
>>>> Zitat von norbi <norbi at rocknob.de>:
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>>>>> Am 13.03.2013 13:03, schrieb Jan Schneider:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Zitat von norbi <norbi at rocknob.de>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Zitat von norbi <norbi at rocknob.de>:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Zitat von norbi <norbi at rocknob.de>:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi List,
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> i cant see umlauts in emails, they was composed in html.
>>>>>>>>>>>> umlauts in the subjects are no problem, umlauts in  
>>>>>>>>>>>> text-mails are no
>>>>>>>>>>>> problem, only in html, i cant see umlauts.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> horde 5.0.4
>>>>>>>>>>>> imp 6.0.4
>>>>>>>>>>>> browser: firefox 19 / ie 9
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> any hints, where i have to search for fixing this ?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> i see somthing like this :
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> sagalnsgdnasdg#
>>>>>>>>>>>> sadgÃ€Ã¶Ã€Ã¶Ã€Ã¶asg
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> asdg
>>>>>>>>>>>> Ã€Ã¶asÃ€
>>>>>>>>>>>> gÃ¶sÃ€a
>>>>>>>>>>>> dgÃ€Ã¶sa
>>>>>>>>>>>> dg
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> norbert
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> no answer here... after some digging i found "one solution".
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> if i change line 198 in "imp/lib/Mime/Viewer/Html.php"
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> from "$charset = 'UTF-8';" to "$charset = 'ISO-8859-1';" it works !
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> but i dont think that thats the best solution ?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Is this with all emails or just a few?
>>>>>>>>>> Does this affect emails written by IMP or read by IMP?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> seems to be a bug in horde/imp.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> because, if i send email over the same webmailsystem, the
>>>>>>>>> webmailsystem is using "Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8". if i
>>>>>>>>> send email over my local thunderbird or outlook, they using
>>>>>>>>> "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15".
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> but horde has fixed in line 198 Html.php the chartset to UTF-8.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> so i think the right solution is "$charset =
>>>>>>>>> $this->_mimepart->getCharset();"
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> right ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> No.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> affect emails read by IMP.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What you write is confusing. Above you write it affects mail  
>>>>>>>> written by
>>>>>>>> IMP, here you write it affects email read by IMP.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ok
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1. writing emails via thunderbird/outlook to account that is  
>>>>>>> read by IMP, the problem exists
>>>>>>> 2. writing emails via IMP(same system as reading) to account  
>>>>>>> that is read by IMP,, the problem not exists
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you provide an example message that fails?
>>>>> strange, in horde 5.0.2/imp 6.0.1 the problem doesnt exist, but  
>>>>> the code is very different. if i uncomment "$charset = 'UTF-8';"  
>>>>> the umlauts are working too in 50.4/6.0.4
>>>>>
>>>>> mail:
>>>>>
>>>>> Message-ID: <51407247.3080606 at rocknob.de>
>>>>> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:34:15 +0100
>>>>> From: norbi <norbi at rocknob.de>
>>>>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0)  
>>>>> Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4
>>>>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>>>>> To: testing at norbi.de1.biz
>>>>> Subject: umlaute test =?ISO-8859-15?Q?=23=E4=F6=E4=F6=FC?=
>>>>> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
>>>>> boundary="------------020801070105060502060605"
>>>>>
>>>>> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>>>>> --------------020801070105060502060605
>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed
>>>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>>>>>
>>>>>    äösdgäösgüöüsagö
>>>>>
>>>>> asgdöüöäasg
>>>>>
>>>>> asdgöü
>>>>>
>>>>> umlauttest
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --------------020801070105060502060605
>>>>> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-15
>>>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>>>>>
>>>>> <html>
>>>>> <head>
>>>>>
>>>>>   <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;  
>>>>> charset=ISO-8859-15">
>>>>> </head>
>>>>> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
>>>>>   <font color="#ffcc00"> äösdgäösgüöüsagö<br>
>>>>>     <br>
>>>>>     asgdöüöäasg<br>
>>>>>     <br>
>>>>>     asdgöü<br>
>>>>>     <br>
>>>>>     umlauttest</font><br>
>>>>>   <br>
>>>>> </body>
>>>>> </html>
>>>>>
>>>>> --------------020801070105060502060605--
>>>>
>>>> You need to send the message as an attachment.
>>> please
>>
>> Renders perfectly fine here. Even though this is not a real email message.
>
> OK, after upgrading some pear packages to the newest version, i cant  
> see umlauts in html-view,  seems it was the commit
>
> https://github.com/horde/horde/commit/a76ff76723596900e55b7098d9e5236da0c23944  
> <https://github.com/horde/horde/commit/a76ff76723596900e55b7098d9e5236da0c239>
> But if i want to see the source-code, the umlauts are not working. u  
> can see the umlauts in source-view , Jan ?

What do you mean? Of course the umlauts are encoded in the source,  
otherwise the message would be badly broken.
-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
http://www.horde.org/