#21 German characters "umlaute" in login-names not work!

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I'm testing Squirrelmail since some weeks. It works
great with my Lotus Domino-IMAP-Server, if the user-
names don't have german characters, like ä, ö, ü in the
login-user-names.
But unfortunatelly some people has a name like Joe
Müller, Gabi Schäfer or so.

I think, that there is a little bug with geman characters.
Maybee it should encode the user-names in utf7 (imap-
standard) or somthing this.

I have the version 1.4.5 of Squirrelmail.

Best reguards

Stefan
stefan.kaifer@hartmann.info

[Tomas Kuliavas]

Logged In: YES
user_id=225877

Which character set is used to store 8bit information in
lotus? iso-8859-1 or utf-8?

[Tomas Kuliavas]

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user_id=225877

I think there is no standard that defines character set used
for login names and passwords. If you know rfc that states
that utf-7 should be used to send login names and passwords
- please name rfc number.

[Jonathan Angliss]

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user_id=620333

Doesn't 1.4.5 check for extended characters, and then quote
them as literal instead of trying to pass it as part of the
main LOGIN statement?

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Logged In: NO

Hi tokul,

I think it's "utf-8", it's the latest version (Domino 6.5.4).

I've experimented, and found, that if I define ALIAS-names,
than the user can logon with the Aliasname, too. That
means, I can use instead of

Gabi Schfer

now

Gabi Schaefer

as logonname, too. It's OK for me!

Best reguards

Stefan

[Tomas Kuliavas]

Logged In: YES
user_id=225877

use 1.4.5, set default language to en_US and default
character set to utf-8. Make sure that browser does not have
squirrelmail_language cookie. Or go to login page and
manually change character set in browser. Try logging in. If
your IMAP authentication library operates in utf-8, i
suspect that you will be able to log in.

SquirrelMail 1.4.4 (functions/imap_general.php v.1.140.2.24)
sends 8bit login information as literals, but there is no
standard that defines character set that should be used for
8bit information. SquirrelMail defaults to character set
that depends on default translation. ISO-8859-1 for German
translation.

SquirrelMail can fix your issue only if somebody creates
standard for transfer ing of 8bit login information.

[Tomas Kuliavas]

Logged In: YES
user_id=225877

it is a bug, but we don't have enough information or set
standards in order to be able to solve it. Moving to i18n
tracker in order to reduce number of bugs on bug tracker.