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i found the forum while i was researching about some character encoding problems i am having with the webmail application i am developing. i read all the information posted on different topics, and there seems to have been a lot of discussion going on the subject of character encoding. so here goes mine:
i am developing a webmail application for personal use that would give me the chance to access several e-mail accounts at once, instead of logging in to different webmail interfaces. i am using php's imap functions, but i am having trouble figuring out all the different encodings. the system has to be able to show turkish characters (ISO-8859-9), and that's what the html output is using as the main charset.
i got most of the conversions under control (mime headers work fine, utf-8, base64 and quoted printable are properly converted). however, some e-mails maintain characters like =20, or =FD, =FE even after the conversion. Another problem is with e-mails that include quotes from other messages. It seems like the quotations maintain their charsets, and when I convert according to the original message, the quoted message includes strange characters.
i realize that this is a huge issue, and several different solutions have to be found. but i would appreciate any suggestions.
cheers,
taylan
Not a lot of feedback or dialog here yet. Have you come up with any solutions to date? Which functions are you using for conversion(s)?
the problematic messages are always identified as ASCII by php. i am using the multibyte functions, especially mb_convert_encoding and mb_detect_encoding. they seem to be giving the best results so far.
as i said before, i managed to solve all the issues but this one. some messages, usually but not exclusively, the ones received from mailing lists show turkish characters in a "B=C3=BCt=C3=BCnle=C5=9Fik" form. sometimes this problem is only seen in quoted portions of the message, but not always.
i know that squirrelmail can show these mails properly, so there must be a proper way of doing it.
once again, i would be really glad if someone could respond and help me out.
cheers,
taylan
