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I have activated the post by email plug-in on my forum http://www.brunnentreff.de/forum which runs in German and uses the German language files for the core, theme, plug-ins etc.
The post by email works well, except that it cannot handle the German character set. We use the following characters: ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü ß
If I post an e-mail with these in from GMail, they get converted into =E4 =F6 =FC =C4 =D6 =DC =DF
Can a parse be added to the plug-in to convert them back again?
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Firstly my apologies for it taking so long to respond. You posted in the middle of a hosting move and for some reason it always takes longer for my dns changes to resolve so I only got full and stable access back this morning.
Would you be willing to send me an email using the same email client you used for the above and incorporating the same character set so that can scrutinise the raw message and see what it is we are missing?
If so then please send that to support at simple-press dot com and I will get into it. We clearly need to sort that.
Additional: Are you allowing attachments in your post by email posts? If not and you are willing to perform a few tests for me - and willing to make a small code change! - then let me know.
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I've just sent the e-mail with the characters in, just the same as I sent to the form except for the recipient.
I am allowing attachments, at least jpegs, which works very nicely and scales them to the max. size.
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Would you be willing to make a small code addition to test a possible fix?
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Sure, I'll do it overnight when the forum is quiet and backed up.
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That 's great - thanks.
OK - the file needed is in your forum-plugins folder /post-by-email/library/sp-email-post-imap.php
The function we need to make a change to is called sp_process_inbox_imap() but we actual;ly need to add a new line at about line 205. Look for this line of code:
if(empty($content) && $maybeNew) $content = $rawContent;
and on the line after that add:
$content = trim(utf8_encode(quoted_printable_decode($content)));
This change will pnly effect new email processing of course. It is also a test/temporary adjustment. If this works for you then we will get a proper fix in place for the next plugin update.
Thanks for the assistance.
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I'm afraid it didn't work, the e-mail content got converted to this:
5CD2IPwgxCDWINwg3w0K
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Ha!
What is the charset of your WP site and - more importantly - your WP database please. That code fix assumed utf8...
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Yellow Swordfish said
What is the charset of your WP site and - more importantly - your WP database please. That code fix assumed utf8...
Both are set to utf8, with the database collation set to utf8_general_ci.
The characters work fine in the other direction as well, ie. e-mail subscriptions to the topics.
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However something is strange about the fix. The file only has 175 lines in it and the line to search for is at line 44, so nowhere near 205.
This is the version information in it:
/* Simple:Press Post by Email - Processing using IMAP $LastChangedDate: 2012-04-24 15:14:20 +0100 (Tue, 24 Apr 2012) $ $Rev: 8448 $ */
Is that the right file and the right version?
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