> Am 12.03.2015 um 14:55 schrieb Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi>: > > On 11 Mar 2015, at 21:31, Felix Zandanel <fe...@zandanel.me> wrote: >> >> Although my MySQL installation is set up to use UTF-8 as the default charset >> on every level (config, database, table and field), and the character_set_* >> runtime variables all yield the value "utf8", it still seems that the mysql >> client library must be instructed to actually use UTF-8 explicitly. Adding >> the following statement to driver_mysql_connect() fixes the issue for me: >> >> mysql_options(db->mysql, MYSQL_SET_CHARSET_NAME, "utf8"); > > I think you can also add to /etc/my.cnf : > > [client] > default-character-set = utf8
Sorry for the late reply. You were so right, that simple line did the trick. My fault, I didn't read the whole charset documentation of MySQL. It's a shame that UTF-8 isn't the default setting. Anyway, as dovecot's internals expect all input strings to be UTF-8, wouldn't it be useful to enforce UTF-8 in the database drivers? Using anything else than ASCII / UTF-8 for dovecot's MySQL connections doesn't really make sense, I think. Also, a "default-character-set = utf8" line in my.cnf is a system wide configuration, which might break other software interacting with MySQL—in theory.
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