Re: [SM-I18N] Creating Folders with Simplified Chinese names

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

>> > >> > I have tried with both Squirrelmail 1.4.5 and 5.1 to create
>> > >> folders with
>> > >> > Chinese names.  Version 1.4.5 tells me that the name given
>> > >> is invalid and
>> > >> > shows it as ????  Version 1.5.1 does better in that it
>> > >> creates a folder
>> > >> > but when it displays it shows charcters that I don't know
>> > >> how to type in
>> > >> > my e-mail (i.e., A with a circle on top).
>> > >> >
>> > >> > I want to try to accomplish two things:
>> > >> >
>> > >> > 1.  Create any folder using a name comprised of Chinese
>> > characters.
>> > >> > 2.  Be able to rename the default folders for Drafts,
>> > >> Deleted Items and
>> > >> > Sent Items to their simplified Chinese translations.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > I have seen posts that appear similar to mine but they are
>> > >> from many years
>> > >> > ago and the things that I understand to try from them don't
>> > >> appear to be
>> > >> > working for me.
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Where do I start in getting this working?  What better
>> > >> information can I
>> > >> > provide to help you in assisting me.
>> > >>
>> > >> Missing information:
>> > >> * Translation selected by end user
>> > >> * Default character setting from SquirrelMail conf.pl utility 10.
>> > >> Languages menu section.
>> > >> * PHP version, PHP mbstring extension settings and
>> > compilation options
>> > >> * Used browser
>> > >
>> > > Tomas,
>> > >
>> > > Thanks for the fast reply.
>> > >
>> > > Here are my answers:
>> > >
>> > > Translation selected by end user:  Simplified Chinese
>> > > Default character setting from SquirrelMail conf.pl:  iso-8859-1
>> > > PHP version:  5.1.2 compiled with
>> > >
>> > > './configure' '--with-apxs'
>> > > '--with-mysql=../mysql-standard-4.0.24-apple-darwin7.7.0-powerpc'
>> > > '--with-xml-dir=/Users/doug/install/php5/libxml'
>> > > '--with-mcrypt=/usr/local'
>> > > '--with-curl=/usr/local' '--with-mhash=/usr/local' '--with-gd'
>> > > '--with-zlib'
>> > > '--with-libjpeg=/usr/local' '--with-libtiff=/usr/local'
>> > > '--with-libpng=/usr/local' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local'
>> > > '--enable-simplexml'
>> > > '--with-iconv' '--with-gettext' '--with-ldap'
>> >
>> > Could you add '--enable-mbstring' compilation option?
>>
>> I will attempt that and report back the results.
>
> Adding --enable-mbstring and making sure that I was currently using the
> Simplified Chinese user interface fixed the problem.

I think this applies only to SquirrelMail 1.5.1. SquirrelMail 1.4.7 does
not detect mbstring gb2312 support. Check functions/imap_utf7_local.php.
GB2312 charset is supported only in PHP 4.3.0 mbstring extension.
SquirrelMail 1.4.7 follows PHP 4.0.6 requirements and uses only
iso-8859-x, utf-8 and iso-2022-jp character sets.

You can also use Chinese folder names in US English translation, if
default_charset option is set to gb2312 or utf-8.


-- 
Tomas