text encoding problem with mail when viewed in outlook

It worked. Thanks a lot. 🙂

hello, looks like the problem still appears in some condition. I checked the charset in the mails, and from my client side, it looks like they are using :

Content-Type: text/plain;

charset="iso-8859-1"

Should I force my mail this use this char set ? It is a big company, and users are not able to change their charset, it is all IT driven.

I have found that info on a page :

Alternatively, you can run the following command to have this setting be the default “UTF-8” encoding:

defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset -string "UTF-8"

Could it be of any help if I change it to :

defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset -string "iso-8859-1"

Thanks

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hello, looks like the problem still appears in some condition. I checked the charset in the mails, and from my client side, it looks like they are using :

Content-Type: text/plain;

charset="iso-8859-1"

Should I force my mail this use this char set ? It is a big company, and users are not able to change their charset, it is all IT driven.

I have found that info on a page :

Alternatively, you can run the following command to have this setting be the default “UTF-8” encoding:

defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset -string "UTF-8"

Could it be of any help if I change it to :

defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset -string "iso-8859-1"

Thanks

It looks that they would have this charset :

Content-Type: text/plain;

charset="Windows-1252"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Maybe the problem ?

It's just weird that with a client i have been working for more than 20 years (we didn't even mail then) all of a sudden, after upgrading to yosemite, this starts. The only way it stops, is when I convert to plain text.

Thanks for all and have a great New Year.

It looks like there is some kind of mixing like you say.

For the same paragraph, in the one I receive from my client (which displays OK on my screen) :

------_=_NextPart_003_01CFED64.5E0191AB

Content-Type: text/plain;

charset=”iso-8859-1”

Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Bonjour Nicolas,

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Suite =E0 notre discussion, pour ESS il s’agira donc de d=E9velopper une =

imagerie plut=F4t qu’une signature ou qu’un sceau, ou tag comme ce qui =

avait =E9t=E9 propos=E9. Comme discut=E9, l’image pourra =EAtre =

compos=E9e de plusieurs images ou d’un m=E9lange d’illustration et =

d’image, qui =E9voquent le ESS (rest of text)

It comes like this (I asked to send me the mail that appear with chinese to them) :

------_=_NextPart_001_01CFEE26.44842963

Content-Type: text/html;

charset="utf-8"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

PGh0bWwgeG1sbnM6dj0idXJuOnNjaGVtYXMtbWljcm9zb2Z0LWNvbTp2bWwiIHhtbG5zOm89InVy

bjpzY2hlbWFzLW1pY3Jvc29mdC1jb206b2ZmaWNlOm9mZmljZSIgeG1sbnM6dz0idXJuOnNjaGVt

YXMtbWljcm9zb2Z0LWNvbTpvZmZpY2U6d29yZCIgeG1sbnM6bT0iaHR0cDovL3NjaGVtYXMubWlj

cm9zb2Z0LmNvbS9vZmZpY2UvMjAwNC8xMi9vbW1sIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcv

VFIvUkVDLWh0bWw0MCI+PGhlYWQ+PG1ldGEgaHR0cC1lcXVpdj1Db250ZW50LVR5cGUgY29udGVu

dD0idGV4dC9odG1sOyBjaGFyc2V0PXV0Zi04Ij48bWV0YSBuYW1lPUdlbmVyYXRvciBjb250ZW50

PSJNaWNyb3NvZnQgV29yZCAxNCAoZmlsdGVyZWQgbWVkaXVtKSI+PHN0eWxlPjwhLS0NCi8qIEZv

bnQgRGVmaW5pdGlvbnMgKi8NCkBmb250LWZhY2UNCgl7Zm9udC1mYW1pbHk6V2luZ2RpbmdzOw0K

(with a lot of lines like this, as a big block)