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    • Double-byte Mail fails in Webmail

    Posted by Rick Cogley posts: 39 Japan

    Hello - I wonder if anyone knows the answer to this?

    In translating the language.php to Japanese, I tested webmail, and found that it does not handle Japanese "kanji" characters. Is there anyway to fix this?

    Thank you dev's for your continual hard work.

    Kind regards
    Rick

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    Posted by Damian Parker posts: 2881 United Kingdom

    Hiya Rick,

    Can you give me some more details as to where to start looking, what areas dont like the characters? for example.

    Thanks Muchly

    Damian


    Posted by Rick Cogley posts: 39 Japan

    Thank you Damian 😀 - it's the subject and the body of the mail, and the character set I suppose. If the character set were set to japanese, and the body and subject were somehow converted so they handle the japanese character entities well, I think it would be no problem.

    Some links:

    • mb functions with code that purportedly works

    http://www.phpbuilder.com/tips/item.php?id=516

    • various multibyte function info including some short code:

    http://www.imodeindia.com/linux/linux_show.asp?article_id=40

    • see the "mbstring" comments by one Japanese dev:

    http://www.mail-archive.com/php-i18n@lists.php.net/msg00066.html

    Could code be added to the mail library that does a CASE and says "if the site or user lang is = japanese, then do this other code here." Or however... ?

    Best,
    Rick

    Posted by Damian Parker posts: 2881 United Kingdom


    Ok, could be a little difficult for me to grasp without under the japanese characters. but is it similar to having the character set set to UTF-8?

    > rcogley:
    > Thank you Damian 😀 - it's the subject and the body of the mail, and the character set I suppose. If the character set were set to japanese, and the body and subject were somehow converted so they handle the japanese character entities well, I think it would be no problem.
    >
    > Some links:
    >
    > * mb functions with code that purportedly works
    > http://www.phpbuilder.com/tips/item.php?id=516
    >
    > * various multibyte function info including some short code:
    > http://www.imodeindia.com/linux/linux_show.asp?article_id=40
    >
    > * see the "mbstring" comments by one Japanese dev:
    > http://www.mail-archive.com/php-i18n@lists.php.net/msg00066.html
    >
    > Could code be added to the mail library that does a CASE and says "if the site or user lang is = japanese, then do this other code here." Or however... ?
    >
    > Best,
    > Rick
    >


    Posted by Damian Parker posts: 2881 United Kingdom


    Ok, could be a little difficult for me to grasp without under the japanese characters. but is it similar to having the character set set to UTF-8?

    > rcogley:
    > Thank you Damian 😀 - it's the subject and the body of the mail, and the character set I suppose. If the character set were set to japanese, and the body and subject were somehow converted so they handle the japanese character entities well, I think it would be no problem.
    >
    > Some links:
    >
    > * mb functions with code that purportedly works
    > http://www.phpbuilder.com/tips/item.php?id=516
    >
    > * various multibyte function info including some short code:
    > http://www.imodeindia.com/linux/linux_show.asp?article_id=40
    >
    > * see the "mbstring" comments by one Japanese dev:
    > http://www.mail-archive.com/php-i18n@lists.php.net/msg00066.html
    >
    > Could code be added to the mail library that does a CASE and says "if the site or user lang is = japanese, then do this other code here." Or however... ?
    >
    > Best,
    > Rick
    >