Tickets :: Comment on [#7760] IMP should (correctly) support special folder name translation

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Comment	> IMP's way of handling translated special folders doesn't really > excite me, here some thoughts: > > > > Current default preferences > > --------------------------- > > $_prefs['drafts_folder'] = array('value' => _("Drafts"), ... > > $_prefs['trash_folder'] = array('value' => _("Trash"), ... > > $_prefs['sent_mail_folder'] = array('value' => _("Sent"), ... > > > > This way users using their webmail with different languages (YES, > there are users doing so) will get many differently named special > folders. But even if just using German (just as an example) they will > have trouble when also using Thunderbird or another IMAP-Client. TB's > default setting for example are exactly the same as IMP ones: Drafts, > Trash, Sent. But a German user would have to either reconfigure IMP > or TB as IMP will create Entwürfe, Papierkorb and Gesendet. And after > that he'll see every folder name twice in TB, but the one with the > special folder symbol will not be the same as in DIMP. > > > > I also mislike the idea to force translators to use IMAP_UTF7-encoded > strings - if they're using poedit they will not know which one of the > texts containing "Entwürfe" will have to be encoded. Example from > German translation: > > > > #: config/prefs.php.dist:301 > > msgid "Drafts" > > msgstr "Entw&APw-rfe" > > > > I temporarily solved this for myself by setting prefs to 'Drafts', > 'Sent' and 'Trash' (without _()) and adding a new foreach-loop to > DIMP::getFolderResponse(), hardcoding my folder names: > > > > foreach ($result['a'] as $k => $v) { > > if (! isset($v->s)) continue; > > if ($v->s != 1) continue; > > if (in_array($v->l, array('Trash', 'Sent', 'Drafts'))) { > > $result['a'][$k]->l = mb_convert_encoding(_($v->l), > 'UTF-8', 'UTF7-IMAP'); > > } > > } > > > > Obviously this is a quick & dirty hack and not a solution to be > applied generically - it should be solved in a clean way in more than > one location: > > - suggesting Trash, Sent and Drafts as default special folder names > > - doing translation in (D)IMP's folder tree creation functions and to > be applied to labels only > > - removing IMAP_UTF7-nonsense from translation files > > > > Please also see bug #7759 for an example fix of label usage in DIMP. > > > > Regards, > > Thomas Gelf
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