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I'm using Squirrelmail (with OutLook skin theme) as a webmail client for my home running Qmail mail server and few other squirrelmail plugins, generally I'm quite happy with Squirrelmail as it perfectly serves me as a web IMAP client the only issue I have is when I'm replying to messages which are written Cyrillic UTF-8 or Cyrillic windows cp-1251 encoding (Bulgarian letters) – I guess Russians which are using squirrelmail with KOI-8R encoding also probably face some similar mail encoding issues. That's pretty annoying because the person message which I'm Replying to gets scrapped and old content becomes unreadable so old correspondence gets broken, because the encoding in which the message is replied is in non-utf-8 encoding ISO-8859, you see example of what I mean in below screenshot:

So here is how to fix that:
Solution is to convert the Bulgarian translation from windows-1251 to UTF-8 in squirremail.po:
 

find . -iname squirrelmail.po
./themes/squirreloutlook-1.0.3/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/squirrelmail.po

cd themes/squirreloutlook-1.0.3/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/
iconv -f CP1251 -t UTF-8 squirrelmail.po > squirrelmail.utf-8.po
sed 's/cp1251/UTF-8/' squirrelmail.utf-8.po > squirrelmail.po
rm squirrelmail.utf-8.po
msgfmt -o squirrelmail.mo squirrelmail.po
cd ../../../../../

For Squirrelmail version 1.4

find . -iname i18n.php
./functions/i18n.php
./themes/squirreloutlook-1.0.3/functions/i18n.php

vim ./themes/squirreloutlook-1.0.3/functions/i18n.php
vim functions/i18n.php

Paste below, the commented section about Bulgarian Language (//) (below configuration):

$languages[‘bg_BG’][‘NAME’] = 'Bulgarian';
$languages[‘bg_BG’][‘CHARSET’] = 'utf-8';
$languages[‘bg_BG’][‘LOCALE’] = 'bg_BG.UTF-8';
$languages[‘bg’][‘ALIAS’] = 'bg_BG';

For Squirrelmail version 1.5

locale/bg_BG/setup.php
 

Finally to make new Squirrelmail configuration affective restart Apache Webserver

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart
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Fixing issues with broken (Russian) cyrillic KOI8-R encoding in reply mail in squirrelmail should be analogical.

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