[vox] SquirrelMail on Linux with multi-Language support

[dylan]

Thanks for the info!

until the most recent version of squirrel mail, i had a bit of trouble
getting it to handle japanese text. the lastest version made it quite
simple.

however, the info on recompiling PHP and courier (both of which i use for my
servers) are quite interesting. i haven't noticed any problems receiving
unicode text from my courier server (installed from a debian package), but i
will try re-compiling it this summer.

you are correct, though, there is little documentation on getting linux up
to speed on multi-lingual text processing.

Dylan

on 03.6.17 4:09 PM, ME at dugan@passwall.com was reported to have writen:

> keywords: language, squirrelmail, locales, multibyte, character set, SM
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I use SM for my domain, and I speak English. However, some of my users are
> from foreign countries. Kasakstahn, Taiwan, China, Japan, Bulgaria,
> Denmark, Germany, etc. and their first languages were not English.
> 
> As a result of wanting to get Japanese and Chinese Characters working in
> messages so the end users need not alter their web browsers' character
> set, I found a method for enabling users to define their own languages to
> be used with SM (SquirrelMail.)
> 
> Procedure:
> 1) Install all of he locales you plan to use or offer your users of
> different languages. (I installed all of them just in case I get another
> foreign user on my box.)
> 
> In Debian 3.0:
> # dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales
> 
> 2) Install your web server. If you use a packaged web server that uses
> modules, then --with-apxs=/path/to/apxs as an arg for the php build is
> useful.
> 
> 3) Why build your own php? many prepackaged php doe not include multi-byte
> character s-et support by default.
> 
> When you build your own php-4.3.2 from source, include the options:
> --enable-mbstring --enable-mbregex --with-gettext
> Along with any other options you use with your php install.
> (Suggested also include this, but not necessary for ML support AFAIK)
> --with-pear and if your apache install uses apxs with modules then:
> --with-apxs=/path/to/apxs
> )
> 
> 4) Why build courier-imap by hand? Many pre-packaged courier-imap servers
> do not come pre-build with full unicode support for all of the charsets
> that courier-imap is capable of using.
> 
> When you configure your courier you will want to add:
> --enable-unicode
> to any other config options you choose to use to enable all supported
> multi-byte unicode charsets that courier-imap knows about (in src).
> 
> 5) After all are installed, use of SM 1.4.x or later can permit users to
> select languages for default composition and display of email messages.
> ALSO, many of the menu names/items (Compose Addresses Folders Options
> Search Help Calendar Fetch Directory) and links available from within a SM
> session are translated! Woot!
> 
> I can see these link names in Japanese, Bulgarian, Danish, German,
> Russian, and English! (Of course, I can't read them, but my users can!)
> (Also, many more languages are supported.)
> 
> This rocks!
> 
> **NOTE: I had to set my default locale to "none" for consistent work.
> **NOTE: not all plugins and buttons have had their words translated, but
> most (if not all) core options are translated.
> **NOTE: I have just started doing this, but due to a lack of docs on how
> to make this work, some sort of info on how to do this might be useful to
> others out there.
> 
> Thanks to irc.freenode.net 's #squirrelmail channel user:
> valcor!valcor@netdork.net for suggesting the piece that I was missing:
> locales for the specific langs I wanted to use other than English.
> 
> -ME
> 
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