Description of problem: All characters unrepresentable in windows-1252 are changed to question marks, so that instead of Přišerně žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy I get P??íšern?? žlu??ou??ký k???? úp??l ??ábelské ódy both in webaccess and over IMAP in Thunderbird. Me being a Czech (and Czech is not representable in windows-1252), this unfortunately makes it showstopper for me. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): zarafa-server-6.40.0-2.el5 zarafa-gateway-6.40.0-2.el5 zarafa-webaccess-6.40.0-2.el5 zarafa-utils-6.40.0-2.el5 zarafa-spooler-6.40.0-2.el5 zarafa-dagent-6.40.0-2.el5 zarafa-client-6.40.0-2.el5 zarafa-6.40.0-2.el5 zarafa-common-6.40.0-2.el5 zarafa-ical-6.40.0-2.el5 zarafa-monitor-6.40.0-2.el5 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1.send a message with Přišerně žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy in both Subject and body of the message to the Zarafa account 2. 3. Actual results: received email is mangled Expected results: it shouldn't be Additional info: This is known upstream http://forums.zarafa.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=2044 http://forums.zarafa.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4384 The same seems to be in the user name. Although I have make an account for me with my name Matěj Cepl, webaccess shows MatÄ›j Cepl
http://forums.zarafa.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1296 as well Although this is known upstream, I would love to have this bug here as warning for an unsuspected users who would think Zarafa could be actually useful for them. For now, it is just a proof-of-concept (tell me which email server has never seen any message with encoding outside of windows-1252?).
Yes, that's a serious issue. Zarafa 7 (should appear in Q1/Q2 of 2011) will have UTF-8 support. According to their lead developer, implementing MAPI without UTF-8 support is that very much easy, that you wouldn't implement UTF-8 support if you wouldn't really need it. Initially Zarafa was a Dutch-only product and their success was more fast then they were able to switch from Windows-1252 ("latin-1") to UTF-8...
There is now beta1 of 7.0 released (http://www.zarafa.com/download-release), which supports Unicode characters now.
Solved with Zarafa 7.0.0