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diff --git a/doc/INSTALL.md b/doc/INSTALL.md index 8779f717c..3f794e2fb 100644 --- a/doc/INSTALL.md +++ b/doc/INSTALL.md @@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ The following command will set up a user 'foi' with password 'foi': GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE foi_test TO foi; ALTER DATABASE foi_development OWNER TO foi; ALTER DATABASE foi_test OWNER TO foi;" | psql + +We create using the ``SQL_ASCII`` encoding, because in postgres this +is means "no encoding"; and because we handle and store all kinds of +data that may not be valid UTF (for example, data originating from +various broken email clients that's not 8-bit clean), it's safer to be +able to store *anything*, than reject data at runtime. # Configure email |