When we send email to people in each country with their data – do we need to convert the unicode data coming from the database into each individual charset ?
Although all modern browsers and email programs will handle UTF-8, some people may be using emailers that do not handle UTF-8. Since unlike HTTP there is no handshake to determine what charsets the email program will accept, at this point in time you probably do need to translate the charset to one that is specific for the user. If you retain the character set in which the user corresponded with you, you can use that. Otherwise you can use one of the common character sets used in email in the user’s country of origin, if you know that.
