Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Translation (UTF8)

[Carsten Wolff]

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On Tuesday 03 June 2003 17:37, Lars Kneschke(priv.) wrote:
> There is also some other point about UTF8. If you display emails from
> poland, china, ... you can't display them correctly, because for german
> we use iso-8951(or something else) as the page charset.
>
> So i would like so see, that we move to unicode in general so we can
> display any chars we want in the page.

Well yes, you could view UTF-8-encoded eMail correctly then, but eMail 
encoded in ISO-8851-x or whatsoever, would no longer be shown correctly. 
It doesn't matter, wich way the charsets get mixed. What needs to be done 
by the eMail-App, is to convert eMail from the charset given in the 
mail-header, to the charset, phpgw is doing it's output in. If there are 
several charsets to convert to (as it is now, because of different 
charsets in different translations), this will be a difficult task. So, 
being the only charset suitable for all languages, utf-8 would be the 
right choice to be the standard-charset for phpgw and all it's 
translations.

Cheers, Carsten.

P.S.: Do phpgw`s Mail-Clients use the "imap"-functions provided by php? If 
so, conversion to utf-8 could be done by imap_utf8(). See 
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.imap.php

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