Re: [SM-PLUGINS] Scambled German umlauts when replying to and forwarding mails

[Fredrik J. <jer...@sq...>]

>>> after I turned on lossy encoding in SquirrelMail configuration the
>>> umlaut problem was solved for most mails. But I experienced that in
>>> some mails it does not work. Instead of scambled umlauts like ??
>>> instead of ? I now see questionmarks instead of every umlaut in the
>>> reply field. I noticed that in the original mail the header just
>>> shows:
>>>
>>>> Content-type: text/plain
>>>
>>> and not like in other mails where it works something like this:
>>>
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>>>> charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>>>> Content-Language: de
>>>
>>> Is it possible that the missing of a charset (I don't think that it
>>> makes a difference if the charset is iso-8859 or utf-8) and the other
>>> information given screws up SquirrelMail?
>>
>> Are these emails displayed correctly?
>
> Yes. I see all umlauts when opening these mails in SquirrelMail. The
> questionmarks just appear when replying or forwarding.

Ah. I didn't understand this until now.

>> Do they have a MIME-Version header?
>
> No. Nothing.
>
> Most of those mails are mails from robots like contact forms so I believe
> that the authors of those programs did not care about correct mail
> headers. Though most mail clients like TheBat! are able to reply without
> crambling the umlauts. So it seems to be possible.
>
> @ Fredrik: As nobody can change things out of his/her competence
> (external servers somewhere in the internet) I thought focusing on the
> thing I can change is the best way to handle this. ;-)

Well if it were a "real" mail program one could file a bug report, but if
it's sloppy web forms I guess this is not a path one could choose. :(

> As I cannot do any programming I bring this to the attention of the
> people here. At least I can do this because I believe that every SM user
> and therefore every SM administrator should have the same problem.

I haven't looked at the lossy encoding code at all, so I don't know how it
works in detail. It would be best if Tomas can help out and mail a patch
if a bug is found. I don't know when I can do anything about this on my
own. :(

Sincerely,
Fredrik