Thursday, June 5, 2008

Re: [BUGS] BUG #4198: The bugreport form has an encoding problem

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > It does have a problem, because the email sent does not contain a
> > charset header. It does look OK for me too -- as long as I use a UTF8
> > terminal. The fix is easy, just add this line to the message headers:
>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> What happens if someone pastes text into the form that is *not* in UTF-8?

AFAIK the browser sends the encoding along the request and a conversion
takes place somewhere. (If I'm mistaken, then the thing to do is
grab the encoding from the POST request.)

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Alvaro Herrera

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