Re: UTF8 problem

Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de> writes:

> Alban Hertroys schrieb:
>> Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
>>
>>> Well, to answer my own question, I hacked the source code of DBMail
>>> and had it set the client encoding to LATIN1 immediately after
>>> database connect, this seems to have fixed the problem.
>> LATIN1 != UTF-8. Your problem isn't solved yet.
>>
>
> Well, this enables postgres to translate the encoding.
> However I would be unsure if dbmail always sends latin-1
> anyway.

I would think it would (at least potentially) vary with each message.
The dbmail software should really set client_encoding based on the
Content-Transfer-Encoding header in the message (or whatever it's
called).

LATIN-1 is one of the most common encodings for email but it's
scarcely the only one...

-Doug