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Force Mail.app to always send UTF-8 messages
I have several encoding problems with Mail.app.
For Brazil, the best option is ISO 8859-1 as UTF-8 is not properly understood by yahoo webmail. Here is how it works, if you use the "defaults write" hack you will send in your chosen format despite the fact that "automatic" is still selected ( you can check you mail headers as noted before). However, if you send your message in rich text format, Mail will encode the plain text part in your chosen format and the html part in ISO 8859-1, which will choke outlook. I had a tread open discussing about this very issue, but that didn't seem to grab much attention http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?t=76364
Force Mail.app to always send UTF-8 messages
So let me see if I'm correct in my understanding of this so far...
Force Mail.app to always send UTF-8 messages
I was kind of simplistic in my post. If you set UTF-8 default, it will always send in UTF-8, but that doesn't work for me because of yahoo webmail.
So if you set it to ISO 8859-1 it will work for both plain and html only if you don't add an attachment. If you do, you'll get plain text in UTF-8 and HTML in ISO 8859-1. This is a bug in my opinion, cause it doesn't make any sense. But it is, however, triggered by a non GUI option (meaning a hack, a hack suggested by Apple itself, but hack nevertheless). http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301986
Force Mail.app to always send UTF-8 messages
Actually, you're quite wrong about it being a "hack." First, it is a developer-provided option, so its not a hack. Second, it is a developer-supported option, as you yourself showed by linking to the kbase article.
Force Mail.app to always send UTF-8 messages
Off topic but can't resist: as Outlook is the biggest bug farm in the history of the universe I somehow think your choking it is not such a bad thing? Seriously: I don't get why M$ are still peddling that thing, why people are still using it, and why we should have to adjust to them and not to us. Sorry but it does irk me and others. UTF-8 (and not UTF-16) is a good general idea for mail but we'd all have to use it. But I think that will become a standard. Yes Yahoo mail is really bad at that but they're bad at a lot of things. Give them another ten years and they'll catch up. No place for a rant but if you ever have a bad day computing then count your blessings for Apple Mail and mail standards are a giant leap ahead of what everyone else suffers through every day.
Force Mail.app to always send UTF-8 messages
I hate Outlook with all my strengths, but Mail.app is one buggy awkward beast. |
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