Squirrelmail languages

[SamTzu]

I'm having trouble in changing the language in Squirrelmail.
I think the problem is with coding.
I believe Squirrel tries to use ISO when my server is using UTF.

How have you solved this issue?

[till]

Create a new vhost for squirrelmail, install squirrelmail into this vhost and then set the page encoding for this vhost.

[SamTzu]

Sounds complicated. I have never defined an alternative path for a squirrelmail installation.
Can it be done with apt-get ?

[till]

I recommed that you just download the squirrelmail tar.gz package from their website and install it in the vhost and do not use apt.

[SamTzu]

I found an easier way.

dpkg-reconfigure locales

Choose ALL
I kept the en_US.UTF-8 as the default.

It will install language support for all the languages (It takes a while but so what

After that is finnished

squirrelmail-configure

Language preferences
1. Default Language : fi_FI
2. Default Charset : UTF-8
3. Enable lossy encoding : false

R Return to Main Menu
C Turn color on
S Save data
Q Quit

Command >> s


And now it works...

[learning-linux]

GREAT ! This did it for me Thanx mate

[swiss420]

Dident seem to work for me. Default is now German under "display preferences" but squirrelmail still shows up in english. Using Ubuntu 10.04 with ISPConfig 3.0.2.2 followed the Perfect Server instructions closely.

dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales...
en_AG.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_NG.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.

SquirrelMail Configuration:
Language preferences
1. Default Language : de_DE
2. Default Charset : UTF-8

Would anyone have a idea what else to try or check?

[falko]

Originally Posted by swiss420

dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales...
en_AG.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_NG.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.

I don't see de_DE here. Are you sure that you enabled it?

[swiss420]

I have not noticed that, thanks for the pointer. I did try other languages but I guess they are all not listed. I will do some more searching to figure out how to install it. Thanks.

Ok figured it out.

Edit: /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
Add: de_DE.ISO-8859-1 ISO-8859-1 or de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8

Run: dpkg-reconfigure locales

Generating locales...
de_DE.UTF-8... done

That worked for me. Further information found here (German - wiki.ubuntuusers.de)


Edit: I did try the above again on a different Server with less luck when I remembered on the last Server I did also modify the german array in /usr/share/squirrelmail/functions/i18n.php and added de_DE.UTF-8 to it. see below for example.

I changed the following:

$languages['de_DE']['LOCALE'] = array('de_DE.ISO8859-1','de_DE.ISO-8859-1','de_DE');

to the following:

$languages['de_DE']['LOCALE'] = array('de_DE.ISO8859-1','de_DE.ISO-8859-1','de_DE','de_DE.UTF-8');

Now it should definetly work sorry for that. (Your "Inbox" should now be "Posteingang" or whatever language you added above.)