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Old 09-04-2014
French characters in postfix/sendmail

Hello again,

How can I send emails via postfix with special characters like "à" via postfix.

When I'm paste-ing the special character inside a editor (nano) it shows like this --> � ... any tips?
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Old 09-04-2014
These characters depend on the encoding of your system... I suggest for a atart that you look at the manpages of locale command, because its not what I would call obvious.. I regularly have to fight with data that we receive with erroneous characters because they do exist in french but have been produced with swiss-german keyboard/layout and so give a totally different result...
(Im am talking of what I do now... on AIX 7.1 ...may be different on LINUX)
 
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