> > SQL_ASCII may also be an option (assign no special meaning to > > characters at all), but I'm less sure of that. Can email address > > contain multibyte characters? I didn't think so... > > E-Mail addreses themselves can't, but the "comment" field of an > address can. The comment field itself, in RFC2822 addresses is ascii. However there is a hack, by which this ascii string may be interpretted as representing a string in another encoding. I don't remember the number of the RFC describing how this works, but it shouldn't be hard to find.
