Claudio Prono:
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> >> There is also an initiative to allow UTF-8 characters to appear in SMTP
> >> (RFC 5336 and related documents). A malformed UTF-8 could easily
> >> appear there, despite being prohibited. If an SQL database would
> >> declare an e-mail address field of an UTF-8 data type, a lookup could
> >> abort when given such invalid data.
> >>
> >
> > In anticipation of UTF8SMTP support, I added an UTF-8 validator to
> > Postfix a while ago. This validator is currently used only in the
> > LDAP and SQLITE clients, which are known to require UTF-8. If
> > a string is not valid UTF-8, then it is not used in a query.
> >
> >
> Interesting, that can be applicable also to a MySQL ? Maybe this can be
> the solution of my problem...
How does MySQL know that the query parameter(s) should be UTF-8
and not ISO LATIN mumble or something else?
If this involves additional code someone else will have to write
that first. I'm not a MySQL developer.
Wietse
