The Dada Mail and UTF-8 FAQ

Introduction

We're trying to make Dada Mail compatible with UTF-8 encoding.

We are probably pretty far along, but Dada Mail's support is not perfect.

We need your help, by alerting us of problems, so we can fix them.

HTML Screens refers to most everything that Dada Mail shows through your web browser, that's written in HTML.

Make sure the config variable, $HTML_CHARSET is set to: UTF-8. This should be the default value.

Email Messages refer to anything Dada Mail sends out, via email.

(These are per-list instructions)

In your list control panel, under, Manage List - Sending Options - Advanced make sure the following settings are set:

These should be the default values.

We're not quite sure what to do with the SQL backends yet.

 The current table schema in Dada Mail does not support UTF-8. We'd really appreciate some feedback on this issue.

The current support SQL backends, mysql (MySQL), Pg (PostgreSQL) and SQLite all have different ways to somewhat, "enable" their UTF-8 support.

In Dada Mail's config, you may play around with this support, via the $DBI_PARAMS variable.

MySQL
add,
```
 mysql_enable_utf8 => 1,
```
to the hashref. It may already be there, just commented out.
PostgreSQL
add,
```
 pg_enable_utf8 => 1,
```
to the hashref. It may already be there, just commented out.
SQLite
add,
```
 unicode => 1
```
to the hashref. It may already be there, just commented out.

Please let us know via the Support Boards:

Or the developer mailing list:

Thanks!