[SM-I18N] [Fwd: Squirrelmail: UTF-8 for Slovakia?]

[Tomas K. <to...@us...>]

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Subject: Squirrelmail: UTF-8 for Slovakia?
From:    Marian Ďurkovič <md...@bt...>
Date:    Sat, June 2, 2007 10:35
To:      to...@us...
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Hi Tomas,

  I'd like to ask you about your opinion on UTF-8 support in Squirrelmail.

  Although I saw utf-8 only SM 1.4.8, there doesn't seem to be one for the
latest stable branch, and the Slovak translation is still using ISO-8859-2.

  This causes us serious problems, since people here are sending mails in
ISO-8859-2, Windows-1250 and UTF-8, while SM only supports ISO-8859-2
at present. Also, after the EU accession, there's much more communication
between EU countries and more than 10 (!) different encodings are used
in this context.

  I'm fully convinced that UTF-8 is the only solution to this mess.
Yes, I'm aware about the possibility to convert the Slovak translation into
UTF-8 myself, however this is not a general solution and requires unnecessary
work from all SM administrators at different sites.

  Could you therefore please comment what's the direction for UTF-8 in SM?
If there's no short-term progress on complete SM switch into UTF-8, I'd like
to propose converting at least the Slovak translation into UTF-8, just
like it's the case with Lithuanian one.


	Thanks & kind regards,


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