How to set(add) an e-mail encoding option in iPod Touch Mail?

i don't think you can but then again i'm not bilingual

It has no character set like

<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Email sent by the iphone should have a header which says:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Unfortunately I think Outlook has some bugs which sometimes make it misread such headers in multipart messages. Send me an example email from your iphone and I can verify what is in the code (tom at bluesky dot org).

I sent e-mail "Fwd: Hi."

Thanks! Your message was a typical Apple Mail multipart message with mixed encodings: The plain text version has "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-kr;" while the html part has "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8".

This is exactly the kind of message that causes problems for Outlook, which has a bug that makes it read the utf-8 version of the text as if it were euc-kr. Unfortunately there is no way to change the way the ipod does this. It would not be a problem if iPod Mail would use utf-8 for both versions of the message, and you might want to send Apple feedback asking them to make it that way:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipodtouch.html

I opened e-mail in IE Browser, I can get encdoing type like below.

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="----= NextPart_000_019C01C9B765.4C8DA160"

여러 부분으로 구성된 MIME 형식의 메시지입니다.

------= NextPart_000_019C01C9B765.4C8DA160
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="euc-kr"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

------= NextPart_000_019C01C9B765.4C8DA160
Content-Type: text/html;
charset="euc-kr"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

What program produced that email? iPod? The one you sent me had two different charsets.

I wrote a html e-mail in Outlook, and a plain text e-mial in my iPod.
I think It's mismatch in character set and contents. Is it right?

Sorry, but I can't understand what you are referring to. You sent me a message from your ipod. It had two different charsets. That is not a bug. Outlook does have a bug which makes it misread messages with two different charsets. Apple could accomodate that bug by having the ipod use the same charset instead of two different ones, and that is the easiest fix, because MS makes garbage software and never fixes its bugs.

Hmm, Why is it different result?

I would expect that something you compose in Outlook would have the same charset for both plain text and html, while something you compose on the iPod might have different charsets. But I don't know if that is what you did here. In any case, having different charsets is only a problem when the recipient is using Outlook I think.

If you compose on one system and forward from another it's not so easy to predict what will happen in general.

In korea, character set is not one, euc-kr, ks c5601-1987, utf-8...

There are really only two I think. euc-kr and ks c5601-1987 are the same, plus utf-8.

It seems many problem in multipart e-mail yet. Even at Gmail web page, the mail thread sent and received with Tom is shown in broken.

While it is usually possible to get two real mail programs to work together correctly one way or another, there is never any guarantee with web mail, because a web page can only have one encoding and you have no control of what the web mail provider is doing to your text.