Re: [SM-DEVEL] Multi-language

[Eugene <ge...@ge...>]

> I think, compose_send hook can process entire message stored in array. If
> plugin is really useful and well tested, it might get incorporated into
> squirrelmail (see x-mailer, paginator, delete_move_next).

Do you mean that plugin hook would be able to prevent outgoing mail from
using iso-8859-1 if English interface is selected?

> > On the other hand, English translation forces the iso-8859-1 charset on
> > compose and send (though, on the other hand, 8-bit headers are simply
> > displayed incorrectly =)
> debug, rinse and repeat. :) Charset conversions are tested in SquirrelMail
> 1.5.x.

Maybe I was not clear enough -- I meant that last phrase as a joke (see
smiley). "incorrectly" means "correct string of cyrillic characters rendered
on-screen as western european". Which is what you would expect given that
unencoded 8-bit headers are not currently recoded in any way. But this is
just a nuisance while for utf-8 pages (e.g. in Russian translation) these
unguarded characters get displayed as all sorts of funny symbols AND break
HTML code a bit. But it all is really a problem of handling unencoded
headers (item 2 in my first message), not of supporting different charsets.

> provide constructive critics. If I say to mechanic that engine in Honda
> CRX "does not work right", he or she will have to spend extra time in
> order to understand my problem. Mechanic might get nuts if I start
> repeating same thing all over again. And you haven't provided your Honda
> in order to diagnose your problem.

Oh, sorry if I sound customer-like. It's just that do not have that much
experience in PHP, let alone in design and structure of SquirrelMail.
I thought about simply hacking in a small change (e.g. simply change default
charset for English to utf-8). This would more or less solve my specific
problem but I feel that more general solution (i.e. separate user-selectable
charsets and translations) is preferrable. But, like most general solutions,
this would require some redesign that I probably would not make right (let
alone convince others).

CU
Eugene