Oh, deeply insightful ones,

I do not know how to proceed. The problem is seemingly trivial, and I have been trying different paths, but none has so far been successful.

I get e-mails sent from a web form. I can't change that, unfortunately.

In those e-mails, I have many Norwegian letters, e.g. ø. The e-mail comes with 

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

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and when I look at it in pine, it comes out correctly.

However, if I look at the file itself, it comes out as the code =F8, and it seems like in a variable, it's there too. I'm stuffing these data into a PostgreSQL database (with DBI), and apparently, the =F8 code goes into the db too. Obviously, I don't want that... :-)

I've been playing around with setting locales, that is 

use POSIX qw(locale_h);
setlocale(LC_ALL, "no_NO.UTF-8");

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but this doesn't help.

Now, I humbly request your attention and hope you can lead me along the right path.

In reply to Norwegian letters problem by Kjetil

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