Hi, the default encoding for postgres changed with version 7.3 to unicode. When running 'createdb' the encoding can be changed, but I think it's a good idea to keep all data unicode encoded (actually UTF-8 I think).
I added one line to dbpgsql.c to let postgres do the conversion: --- dbpgsql.c.orig 2004-01-07 16:00:16.000000000 +0100 +++ dbpgsql.c 2004-01-19 18:12:19.000000000 +0100 @@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ return -1; } + /* switch client encoding to latin1 (default is unicode since 7.3) */ + db_query("SET NAMES 'Latin1'"); + return 0; } Is there a better/cleaner solution? If not is it possible to add user defined SQL commands to the config file that are executed after opening the db connection? If dbmail adds non UTF-8 characters to a unicode db postgres says: Jan 19 06:32:56 server postgres[23203]: [3] ERROR: Invalid UNICODE character sequence found (0xc05e) Jan 19 06:32:56 server dbmail/smtp[23201]: insert_messages(): error inserting msgblock -- MfG Thomas Mueller - http://www.tmueller.com for pgp key (95702B3B)