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Re: Scambled German umlauts when replying to and forwarding mails
by Martin Sebald
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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
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>> 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
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Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited
royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing
server and web deployment.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects
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