Tickets :: Comment on [#4447] Improper handling of character sets

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Comment	> I recently changed hosting companies due to problems with web mail in > Russian, but the new company, which uses IMP 4.1 and Horde Framework > 3.1, also has the problem. I see this problem report, which is now 6 > months old. Is anyone working on this? Is fhere something I can do to > help? I have system programming experience and this issue is quite > important to me. > > > >> Tested on Horde 3.1.3/IMP 4.1.3 with FireFox 1.5.0.7; Konqueror > >> 3.5.3; Opera 9.1 > >> > >> Scenario: > >> > >> Two users: one has the Russian language set as Preferred in Global > >> Options > Locale; the second has Spanish (Espanol) set as Preferred > >> language in Global Options > Locale. > >> > >> The Russian User composes an email using the Cyrillic character set > >> but changes the Charset option in the composition window to UTF-8 and > >> sends it to the Spanish locale user. When the Spanish locale user > >> receives the message, instead of seeing the Cyrillic character set, > >> only question marks (?) are displayed. > >> > >> The Spanish user then replies to the Russian User, changes the > >> Charset to Russian in the composition window, and sends the message. > >> What the Russian User receives is garbage, as show below: > >> Статьи > >> обычно > >> несерьёзный > >> кто но, вас > >> пока > >> вообще > >> > >> The original Cyrillic based message is viewable with other email > >> clients (Squirrelmail, Gmail, for example), but can only be viewed by: > >> > >> 1. The Spanish User changing his locale to Russian in Global Options; > >> 2. Clicking the link to open it in a new window, which only worked on > >> Konqueror, which opened it in Kate (a text editor). > >
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