Re: Scambled German umlauts when replying to and forwarding mails

> Hello Tomas!
>
>>> after I turned on lossy encoding in SquirrelMail configuration the
>>> umlaut problem was solved for most mails. But I experienced that in some
>>> mails it does not work. Instead of scambled umlauts like ?? instead of ?
>>> I now see questionmarks instead of every umlaut in the reply field.
>>> I noticed that in the original mail the header just shows:
>>>> Content-type: text/plain
>>> and not like in other mails where it works something like this:
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>>>>      charset="iso-8859-1"
>>>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>>>> Content-Language: de
>>> Is it possible that the missing of a charset (I don't think that it
>>> makes a difference if the charset is iso-8859 or utf-8) and the other
>>> information given screws up SquirrelMail?
>> Are these emails displayed correctly?
>
> Yes. I see all umlauts when opening these mails in SquirrelMail. The
> questionmarks just appear when replying or forwarding.
>
>> Do they have a MIME-Version header?
>
> No. Nothing.
>
> Most of those mails are mails from robots like contact forms so I believe
> that the authors of those programs did not care about correct mail headers.
> Though most mail clients like TheBat! are able to reply without crambling
> the umlauts. So it seems to be possible.
>
> @ Fredrik: As nobody can change things out of his/her competence (external
> servers somewhere in the internet) I thought focusing on the thing I can
> change is the best way to handle this. ;-) As I cannot do any programming I
> bring this to the attention of the people here. At least I can do this
> because I believe that every SM user and therefore every SM administrator
> should have the same problem.
>
> Kindest regards,
> Martin