8 Dec 2004 10:44
Horde IMP in Japanese
Thomas Maadie <thomas <at> e-interwave.com>
2003-07-25 09:44:29 GMT
2003-07-25 09:44:29 GMT
I guess I'm asking you if a revision to IMP is possible so that Japanese messages can be displayed correctly. The Japanese translation for IMP Webmail is good. The menus at the top uses Japanese "Shift-JIS" encoding, which is the standard encoding for Japanese websites. Your HTML tag ensures it.... <html lang="ja-JP"> UNFORTUNATELY, the standard encoding for Japanese E-mail is very, very different. It is in Japanese "JIS / ISO-2022JP" encoding. This is a completely different code. If you use Internet Explorer or Netscape, it will not automatically detect this, especially when you specify the <html lang="ja-JP"> tag at the top of the web page. The result is that the message portion ALWAYS displays jibberish at first. (Then you need to click something to fix the encoding on the screen, and you need to repeat this for EACH message you want to read.) With IMP Webmail's Language set to "Japanese," you are trying to display 2 DIFFERENT ENCODINGS on the same page, and it looks very, very bad! This scares away many Japanese users. (You also use a 3rd Japanese encoding -- "EUC" encoding in the Inbox summary's Time column.) A quick solution may be to set no language headers(Continue reading)
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