Missing character '?' in the sender ("From") of Overdue notices sent by mail

• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 20

Problem Symptoms:
* In the overdue notices we have "Biblioteca de Espa?a" in the sender field ("From") and the character '?' is not displayed

* This field is configured in alephcom.ini in the field "MailerName":

[Mail]
..
FromAddress=biblioteca@test.es
BccAddress=
MailerName=Biblioteca de Espa?a
..

Cause:
The sender name in Alephcom.ini is not in utf-8 format.

Resolution:
To solve the problem, use the utf-8 coding of the character '?' in Alephcom.ini:

MailerName=Biblioteca de Espa?a

--> change to

MailerName=Biblioteca de Espa??±a

To get character '?' in utf-8 format, you can create a file called "test" under Unix containing the character '?' as content and then convert this file to utf-8 format with the following command:

iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t UTF-8 test.old > test.dat

Then you can copy the utf-8 encoded character from the converted test.dat file and paste it into your Alephcom.ini.