Setting default outgoing message encoding to UTF-8 ?

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Setting default outgoing message encoding to UTF-8 ?

My outgoing messages with international characters are received garbled in Outlook clients, unless I manually change the encoding to Unicode.

I tried following the advice on http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=714766
and specifically running the command:
defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset "UTF-8"
in Terminal. Yet outgoing messages still show "Automatic" in the Message>Text Encoding menu.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Jul 4, 2007 3:55 AM

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Tom Gewecke

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Jul 4, 2007 4:33 AM in response to Guychi

Yet outgoing messages still show
"Automatic" in the Message>Text Encoding menu.

What it says there doesn't matter. See this note:

http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/woutlook.html

Is your mail displaying correctly at the other end or not? If not, try Fix C in the note.

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Guychi Author

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Jul 4, 2007 5:32 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks, seems fine (in the raw view).

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Guychi Author

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Jul 8, 2007 2:42 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

No, there is still a problem:

If I just compose a new message it get sent in UTF-8.
But if I reply or forward a message encoded as, for instance, ISO-8859-8-i, then it doesn't get encoded as UTF-8 and is viewed as giberish on Outlook clients.

The only solution I have at the moment is to, again, manually choose UTF-8 encoding for each message, if I avoid using the dingbat trick.

Is there any way to force automatic UTF-8 encoding even for forward/reply messages?

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Tom Gewecke

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Jul 8, 2007 3:19 AM in response to Guychi

The only solution I have at the moment is to, again,
manually choose UTF-8 encoding for each message, if I
avoid using the dingbat trick.

Is there any way to force automatic UTF-8 encoding
even for forward/reply messages?

I don't know of any, aside from the dingbat trick.

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