Tickets :: [#7244] problem with umlaut characters in prefs.php

6.0.0-alpha14

6/29/25

Summary	problem with umlaut characters in prefs.php
Queue	IMP
Queue Version	HEAD
Type	Bug
State	Not A Bug
Priority	1. Low
Owners
Requester	m.gabriel (at) das-netzwerkteam (dot) de
Created	08/27/2008 (6150 days ago)
Due
Updated	08/29/2008 (6148 days ago)
Assigned
Resolved	08/28/2008 (6149 days ago)
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Milestone
Patch	No

08/29/2008 09:50:39 PM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #12	Reply to this comment
patch attached :-/ Applied to IMP 4.2.1.

08/29/2008 09:50:21 PM	CVS Commit	Comment #11	Reply to this comment
Changes have been made in CVS for this ticket: http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/imp/config/conf.xml?r1=1.53.2.37&r2=1.53.2.38&ty=u

08/29/2008 09:49:46 PM	CVS Commit	Comment #10	Reply to this comment
Changes have been made in CVS for this ticket: http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/imp/config/conf.xml?r1=1.131&r2=1.132&ty=u

08/29/2008 07:00:23 PM	m (dot) gabriel (at) das-netzwerkteam (dot) de	Comment #9 New Attachment: conf.xml.patch	Reply to this comment
[Show Quoted Text - 9 lines][Hide Quoted Text] Changes have been made in CVS for this ticket: http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/imp/config/prefs.php.dist?r1=1.295&r2=1.296&ty=u it would be nice to have that sort of explanation as a description text in the imp admin config page where the conf parameter "fixed_folders" is set... (i.e. imp's conf.xml). patch attached... patch attached :-/

08/29/2008 06:59:29 PM	m (dot) gabriel (at) das-netzwerkteam (dot) de	Comment #8	Reply to this comment
Changes have been made in CVS for this ticket: http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/imp/config/prefs.php.dist?r1=1.295&r2=1.296&ty=u it would be nice to have that sort of explanation as a description text in the imp admin config page where the conf parameter "fixed_folders" is set... (i.e. imp's conf.xml). patch attached...

08/28/2008 09:01:25 PM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #7	Reply to this comment
That being said, we should probably put comments in prefs.php for every folder pref we have to make this clear. Done.

08/28/2008 09:01:01 PM	CVS Commit	Comment #6	Reply to this comment
Changes have been made in CVS for this ticket: http://cvs.horde.org/diff.php/imp/config/prefs.php.dist?r1=1.295&r2=1.296&ty=u

08/28/2008 07:12:45 PM	m (dot) gabriel (at) das-netzwerkteam (dot) de	Comment #5	Reply to this comment
[Show Quoted Text - 10 lines][Hide Quoted Text] What's wrong with that? It's the expected behavior. with unix OS depending on your distribution / OS vendor your shell's encoding settings can differ (ISO-8859-15, UTF-8, etc.) and that has consequences for special characters (above the 8-bit threshold) in prefs.php/conf.php All of this is irrelevant. There is only one charset that can be used for folder prefs - UTF7-IMAP (see RFC 3501 [5.1.3]). You need to convert your folder name to this charset. ah... ok. That being said, we should probably put comments in prefs.php for every folder pref we have to make this clear. as the prefs.php etc. files will only be maintained by (h+p)ostmasters this will probably suffice. thx, mike

08/28/2008 04:38:02 PM	Michael Slusarz	Comment #4	Reply to this comment
What's wrong with that? It's the expected behavior. with unix OS depending on your distribution / OS vendor your shell's encoding settings can differ (ISO-8859-15, UTF-8, etc.) and that has consequences for special characters (above the 8-bit threshold) in prefs.php/conf.php All of this is irrelevant. There is only one charset that can be used for folder prefs - UTF7-IMAP (see RFC 3501 [5.1.3]). You need to convert your folder name to this charset. That being said, we should probably put comments in prefs.php for every folder pref we have to make this clear.

08/28/2008 04:31:09 PM	m (dot) gabriel (at) das-netzwerkteam (dot) de	Comment #3	Reply to this comment
What's wrong with that? It's the expected behavior. with unix OS depending on your distribution / OS vendor your shell's encoding settings can differ (ISO-8859-15, UTF-8, etc.) and that has consequences for special characters (above the 8-bit threshold) in prefs.php/conf.php so if this not a bug (it is to my point of view) which encoding (charset) is used / presumed when including the prefs.php / conf.php files? does the php include function/command take the user's language / charset into consideration (i.e. the shell's LANG variable, talking about unix systems here)? alternatively, is there a way to tell php: this very specific php file (e.g. prefs.php) is written in charset UTF-8 (my shell's default charset) while other files are written in ISO-8859-15 etc.? when i put an umlaut in my prefs.php i surely want horde / php be able to understand what i mean...

08/28/2008 09:12:07 AM	Jan Schneider	Comment #2 State ⇒ Not A Bug	Reply to this comment
What's wrong with that? It's the expected behavior.

08/27/2008 05:24:27 PM	m (dot) gabriel (at) das-netzwerkteam (dot) de	Comment #1 State ⇒ Unconfirmed Patch ⇒ No Milestone ⇒ Queue ⇒ IMP Summary ⇒ problem with umlaut characters in prefs.php Type ⇒ Bug Priority ⇒ 1. Low	Reply to this comment
when putting a folder name with umlauts into prefs.php or conf.php (fixed_folders) then imp behaves unexpectedly. when i put, for example, "Gel&APY-schte Objekte" instead of "Gelöschte Objekte" as my trash folder name into prefs.php, then imp accepts a trash folder with umlauts. same with other folders... or do i miss some nls setting in nls.php (my site's default lang is to de_DE)???