special character in mail alias

[phingers]

I'm trying to setup a new mail alias in Plesk

stéphanie@domain.com

However the accented E causes an error. On my old server in the virtmaps file I used the following

st\xe9phanie@domain.com

Which plesk does not accept either.

So how do I set this up properly in plesk, or bypass this somehow?

 

[hardweb]

It depends on what encoding you use on your server. It is not possible to bypass this.

 

[phingers]

encoding? and database?

How do I find out which encoding type I'm using? What is the right encoding type to properly put the accented characters in?

utf-8 vs 88591?

I've found the mail_aliases table in plesk db, added stephanie with the accented E.

Yet emails seem to go to limbo for that address, how does plesk map the db entry to qmail?