Re: [SM-I18N] Support for multiple character sets at the same time (Japanese and Norwegian)

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

> One of my squirrelmail users (I am using squirrelmail 1.4.10a) is Japanese.
> To be able to read and reply mails in Japanese, I:
> 
> - added the .php files in the eastasia directory to
> www/squirrelmail/functions/decode.
> 
> - set language=ja_JP in the users .pref file.
> 
> This works OK. But then. The user lives in Norway, and wishes to use
> iso-8859-1 charset to write Norwegian characters also. Is it possible to
> support being able to write and reply with both character sets without
> changing language for every time one replies/sends mail in the other
> language? Like a "figure out character set by checking the email"? If
> squirrelmail can not do it, is there anyone here that has managed to set
> it up with another webmail package?

Scripts can guess text language, but performance will be abysmal and it
increases PHP requirements.

> Right now, with language=ja_JP, charset is always set to iso-2022-jp in
> outgoing mails, even if 8-bit Norwegian characters were typed.
> 
> PS: I am sorry for asking this if it is documented somewhere, but I
> didn't find anything about it. Tried fiddling with default_charset =
> no_NO.UTF-8 in config.php, but it didn't seem to do what I want.

Default charset applies only to US English translation. It is written in conf.pl
and config_default.php.

SquirrelMail has utf-8 package in Sourceforge downloads. It allows to use
Japanese translation in utf-8 and write Norvegian and Japanese emails.

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=311&package_id=200705

-- 
Tomas