On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 02:32:59AM +0100, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> On Dienstag 20 Januar 2009 Wietse Venema wrote:
> > I have a postfix making SQL queries
> >
> > > to PostgreSQL, and can see from postgresql logs that postfix does
> > > set client_encoding to 'LATIN1'
> > > How can I change that to use UTF8?
> >
> > SMTP is an ASCII protocol, and that is likely not to change.
>
> But sometimes there is e-mail arriving with bad encoding, example german
> umlauts in headers (that's done by Incredimail when used on a mid-
> european timezone: Mitteleurop?ische Sommerzeit, Incredimail writes the
> Umlaut-a in the header). Is there a way I can get postfix handle this?
>
Configure your Postgres database to use a LATIN-1 encoding. WIth this
you get a single-byte per character encoding and all byte patterns
are valid strings.
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Viktor.
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