https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196017 The latest squirrelmail did not convert convert Subject to "zen-kaku kata-kana". Usually, if a user used "han-kaku kata-kana" in the body or header, any mail application would convert it to "zen-kaku kata-kana". The squirrelmail also should convert. diff -up squirrelmail-1.4.18/functions/i18n.php.zenkaku squirrelmail-1.4.18/functions/i18n.php --- squirrelmail-1.4.18/functions/i18n.php.zenkaku 2009-05-07 23:55:44.000000000 +0200 +++ squirrelmail-1.4.18/functions/i18n.php 2009-05-12 09:24:06.063892916 +0200 @@ -625,6 +625,7 @@ function japanese_charset_xtra() { $ret = encodeHeaderBase64(mb_convert_encoding($ret,'ISO-2022-JP','EUC-JP'), 'iso-2022-jp'); } + $ret = mb_convert_kana($ret, "KV"); /** * if text is in ascii, we leave it unchanged. If some ASCII * chars must be encoded, add code here in else statement.