Re: Change of SM default_charset to UTF-8

> Hi all,
>
> seeing that 3 more languages are going to switch to UTF-8 for SM 1.4.18,
> I'd like to propose to switch the SM's default_charset to UTF-8 as well.
>
> The definition for it resides in config/config_default.php and I suggest
> to modify it as follows:
>
> ------------------
>
> /**
> * Default Charset
> *
> * This option controls what character set is used when sending mail
> * and when sending HTML to the browser. By default it's set to 'utf-8',
> * which ensures that mail written in any charset could be handled
> correctly. *
> * This option is active *ONLY* when default language is en_US. In other
> * cases SquirrelMail uses charset that depends on default language.
> * See $squirrelmail_default_language
> *
> * If you're seeing any strange problems with UTF-8, you might try to set
> * the default charset to 'iso-8859-1'.
> * @global string $default_charset
> */
> $default_charset = 'utf-8';
>
> ----------------------
>
> The above change will have zero impact on existing installations, since
> this template file is used just for fetching defaults during first SM
> installation. Anyway, I do belive that setting this to UTF-8 is a good way
> to express our common preference for UTF-8 and initiate migration towards
> it.
>
> What do you think?