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Force Mail.app to always send UTF-8 messages
Authored by: jiclark on Aug 13, '07 11:59:12AM

So let me see if I'm correct in my understanding of this so far...

If I have Mail.app set to send in Plain Text, but run the defaults write command above, the messages will be sent encoded as UTF-8. But, as soon as I switch to Rich Text, it will send a two-part message, with each part encoded differently??? That seems just plain weird! Can anyone confirm that? What would the possible point of that be??

I send 99% of my messages as Plain Text, so am I right that it would make sense for me to run the command above anyway, just to be sure my messages appear "clean" for most Windows users?

This is one of those 'hints' that almost needs its own background article to be understandable by all types of users...



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Force Mail.app to always send UTF-8 messages
Authored by: Pedro Estarque on Aug 13, '07 05:29:24PM
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



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Force Mail.app to always send UTF-8 messages
Authored by: GaelicWizard on Aug 13, '07 10:43:53PM

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.

Its just a way of changing what "automatic" means.

JP

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