Re: [tlug] Japanese groupware?

[David E <dave@???>]

2004/03/02 at 13:45 Gerald Naughton wrote:
> As a followup to my email
> 
> My main issue was displaying of Japanese email
> with individual Groupware Tools
> 
> - Horde  www.horde.org
> -  eGroupware
>     same problem with Japanese
>     Menu OK but Email message was messed up
> - tutos 
>    same problem with Japanese
>     Menu OK but Email message was messed up
> - iLohamail
>    used @ GOL.COM(as Jonathan said )
>    Doesn`t support POP3S but looks good
> Notes
> 1  PHP 4.3.2 
>    needs to support mbstring (invoke in php.ini)

You may be able to solve the Japanese email issues in some of these
systems by overloading the mail() function with mb_send_mail(). This can
be done in the php.ini config file by setting something like (I might be
remembering the syntax wrong - best check the docs)

mbstring.func_overload = 1

A couple of caveats - apparently mb_send_mail doesn't handle HTML mail,
and overloading the mail() function might result in non-Japanese email
also being sent with Japanese encoding headers, etc. Also, as you note,
you'll need to set up some mbstring parameters in php.ini to
automatically convert encodings on input and output.

-- 
-dave