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====== Character encoding / UTF-8 / Umlauts / DB character set ======

eBiss uses the [[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8|UTF-8]] character set, with which all characters can be represented and used in the mapping.
The message content is saved in the message store as [[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8|UTF-8]] files.

All other persistent data, such as the subject of the messages, the partners, etc. are stored in the DB.
The DB should/must use the [[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1|ISO 8859-1]] character set, where upper/lower case is not relevant. 
is not relevant. For the SQL server it is: ‘Latin1_General_CI_AS’.