Re: [SM-USERS] Re: Sending Japanese Characters

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

> Message: 10 Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:51:22 +0200 (EET) Subject: Re:
> [SM-USERS] Sending Japanese Characters From: "Tomas Kuliavas"
> <to...@us...> To:
> squ...@li...>
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>>> I am experiencing a problem sending Japanese characters from
>>> Squirrelmail using the English interface.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> They end up in the users mailbox as &#12486;&#12484;
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> if I send through my mail server via mail client like Thunderbird.
>>> The
>>> text is received correctly. Also if I send via Squirrel Mail with the
>>> Japanese interface the characters are printed correctly as well.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a way to switch the encoding to something like UTF-8 so it
>>> will send Japanese from the English version of Squirrel Mail?
>>
>>
>
> edit functions/i18n.php and set utf-8 charset for en_US translation in
> $languages array or check custom_charset plugin.
>
>
> Tomas
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> Tomas thanks for your suggestion but I that did not work for me... most
> of the text Kanji, Hirigana and Katakana is moji baki (unreadable)
> regardless of what I change the en_US encoding to. I have tried utf-8 and
> ja-utf-8 (saw this in phpmyadmin). Also I noticed what ever I changed the
> encoding to this is what appeared in the header <snip>
> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4-1.FC2
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> <snip>
>
>
> I changed these lines in i18n.php
> <code>
> $languages['en_US']['NAME']    = 'English';
> $languages['en_US']['CHARSET'] = 'utf-8';
> $languages['en_US']['LOCALE']  = 'en_US.utf-8';
> $languages['en']['ALIAS']      = 'en_US';
> </code> Was I changing the wrong lines or is there something else I need
> to change? My problem is I have a number of bi-lingual users who's first
> language is English but have to communicate with customers in Japanese
> they would rather see a English interface even though they read/write
> Japanese. Thanks Again, Erin

You have changed different squirrelmail install or RH changed something in
squirrelmail i18n. Your changes should have set US English translation to
utf-8 charset.

Which charsets are used in your emails? iso-2022-jp, euc-jp, some other
charset.

Which extensions are supported by your php install? I need information
about iconv and recode support. Which php version is used?

Can you check if you can write in Japanese when Lithuanian or Russian
translations are used. If lt_LT and ru_RU locales are not installed,
interface will remain in English. Don't try to reply to other Japanese
email. Only write in Japanese and check if others can read it.

Can you create utf-8 encoded html page with all Kanji, Hirigana and
Katakana characters and check if your browser displays them correctly?

-- 
Tomas