[Dovecot] Problem with sieve and german umlauts

[Robert Schetterer]

Timo Sirainen schrieb:
> On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 11:04 +0200, M. Bobkiewicz wrote:
>> Dear list,
>> I?m running a postfix (2.5.6) / Dovecot (1.1.11) on a Centos 5.2 box. 
>> I?ve written a small gui application to simply create Out of Office 
>> replys with sieve. The resulting code did work with maildrop without any 
>> problems. Now sieve fails when it meets any german umlauts like ä or ü. 
>> It just stops compiling the scripts and complains about the missing 
>> "};". A simple fix is to just replace the umlauts, but that doesn?t meet 
>> the expectations of my users. Is there any escape code I could use or 
>> any way to place the mail text outside the script?
> 
> Are you giving the characters in UTF-8? I think it should work fine. You
> could also try with the new Dovecot v1.2 Sieve plugin and its tools
> (e.g. sievec or sieve-test), even if you don't end up using them in
> prodution. It might give a better error message.
> 

using horde ingo on hardy debian with 1.2 sieve
vacation has no problems with german umlauts
using

locale
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

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Best Regards

MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria