| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> | 
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> | 
| Cc: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Daniel Migowski <dmigowski(at)ikoffice(dot)de>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: BUG #4198: The bugreport form has an encoding problem | 
| Date: | 2008-06-05 23:13:34 | 
| Message-ID: | 20080605231334.GU16502@alvh.no-ip.org | 
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)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.)
-- 
Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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