From 2003, try to use Mozilla Suit, including browser (Firefox predecessor) and mail client (Thunderbird), but all because of functional problems only shallow:
1. Although I like label browsing, it is not good when I have access to many web pages. Only
2.Thunderbird When the Chinese newsgroup is displayed, the group name is garbled, and the message content cannot be displayed.
About Thunderbird supports the support of the Chinese newsgroup, after the Mozilla is reflected, the answer is a question that is known and has not been repaired.
Because of 2005, because Firefox's success is now basically used as a default browser. At this time, I remembered the mail client: Now I now come out Thunderbird.
What is disappointing is that the problem that does not support the Chinese news group still exists!
According to some people online, this is because NEWSFAN, WebKing, etc. are not implemented in accordance with the newsgroup standard. When transferring news group names, some people have provided Patch to Mozilla, but Mozilla is not adopted.
Just a few days ago, if you just encode the question, since Mozilla is open source, then you should solve the problem, you should solve the problem (this is the benefit of open source :))
During modifying the source code of Thunderbird, the problem is not unilateral newsfan. Webking is not implemented in accordance with the newsgroup standard. In fact, the TB itself is designed to implement the double-byte coding (UNICODE, GBK) support, in some function interfaces In the middle, CHAR * is explicitly used as input, and does not specify the length of the buffer, in fact, the string ends at 0, and these inputs are not used as the UTF8 encoding process (in this case, as a change in this case Long coding processing is the only way).
Now the changes in newsfan, WebKing and other newsgroups are now basically completed, and below is some basic conditions.
1. Modify it on the basis of 1.0.2
2. Support NewsFan, Webking Access, can subscribe, read, send mail, etc., there will be no garbled.
3. Still existing problems
(1) Subscribe does not support using Chinese as a keyword filtering
(2) When sending a message to the Chinese news group, the Chinese news group name as the address is displayed as garbled (but does not affect the normal transmission of the email)
4. Modifying is done in Hacking, so that the amount of work required to achieve the purpose is smaller, and the impact of modification can be limited to one range, so that the modification of TB will not affect its overall quality. But this is not a developmentable method, which reduces the readability and maintainability of the entire project code.
Because TB's newsgroup design itself supports other languages other than English (design and historical problems, as mentioned above), the above problem modification requires more changes (reconstruction), it takes a lot of time and energy, now I can't get determined. I hope to apply for resources that can help them continue to continue to improve TB.
It can be said that this version now modified is still useful. The advantage of TB is across platforms, and send and receive emails, access newsgroups, RSS reading, and functions. For your own needs, I also hope that I can work with friends who meet the same problem. BTW: Under the promotion of Mozilla China, this bug will get amendment in TB 1.1. My version will first help my urgently needed to solve the urgent bombard, thank you www.mozine.org's server download http://ftp.mozine .org / pub / thunderbird / contrib / guan_bin / thanks to Steekid supplied server download space http://www.steekid.name/tb.html
