Re: Bad Characters from Unicode
Re: Bad Characters from Unicode
- Subject: Re: Bad Characters from Unicode
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:44:19 -0700
On 2007-03-10, at 02:59, KOENIG Yvan wrote:
As I understand it, the encoding is for input to message body
and it should normally be the same as one's system encoding. The
output encoding seems to be at the mercy of the programmers. I'd
prefer that it be UTF-8 but like you, my messages appear to be
encoded as 1252.
A de-facto standard, I'm afraid, AFAIU it's because some widely
used webmail programs dislike Unicode.
Be interesting to discover if Mail.app has a preferences key which
specifies the output encoding. Maybe something like:
defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset "UTF-8"
Hello Yvan,
I searched many times in the preference file but never saw such a
pref.
There are several discussions available: <http://homepage.mac.com/
thgewecke/woutlook.html>, and <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?
story=20070808165831835> are just a few. Some people claimed that it
doesn't work, others have no problem, and still others claim that you
must write this setting logged in as root.
Also look at the '☞' character in my sig. Apparently having such a
character anywhere in the message body will force the encoding.
On my machine, the pref file is:
"Macintosh
HD:Users:yvankoenig:Library:Preferences:com.apple.mail.plist"
When I select a setting different than "Automatique" it reverts
immediately to "Automatique".
I think you can only see the change in the raw source of the email
message.
Philip Aker
☞ email@hidden
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