Re: [exim] Exim and MySQL with UTF-8 encoding

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Author: Jasen Betts
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim and MySQL with UTF-8 encoding
On 2017-11-09, Jeremy Harris <jgh@???> wrote:
> On 08/11/17 21:15, Yves Goergen wrote:
>> But the problem is that Exim doesn't talk to the MySQL server with UTF-8
>> so it prevents using all that stuff. Instead, it uses some 8-bit
>> encoding. I can see this in the reply message: It contains parts like
>> =FC for "ü" where it should be at least two bytes.
>
> That "=FC" might be an RFC-2047 encoded byte, perhaps?


or quoted-printable in a message-body?

> Lowercase 'U' with umlaut appears to be Unicode U+00FC.


and 8859-15 0xFC

so it seems mysql is giving ISO 8859-15 (or possibly ISO 8859-1 or
WIN-1252) encoding.

Could it be that exim is not set to use unicode?

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