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

Dave Page wrote:
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Daniel Migowski <dmigowski(at)ikoffice(dot)de> wrote:

> > Entered Umlauts aren't correctly received by your script responsible for the
> > form at:
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org/support/submitbug
> >
> > This might be a problem for entering encoding related problems, which i
> > tried to do a few minutes ago.
> >
> > The Input I pasted had in fact nice umlauts displayed, but the response
> > email from you showed them as 2-char-ASCII representation of the UTF-8 char.
>
> Looks OK for me, but maybe Gmail is fixing it up.

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

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