Comments on: Problems with international text in Mail 2.0

By: Ufuk

Ufuk — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:15:07 +0000

Hello,

I know this is an old post but i need to ask something…. I need to set the “default encoding for viewing” for my sent messages mailbox.

When I send a message, there is no problem. But when I reply a mail, the international chars looks scrambled. That doesn’t affect sent mail, as the receiver gets the message in correct format. Only sent message mailbox looks that way… and when i select message > text encoding to “automatic”, the problem is solved. But i need to do that for each mail i replied….

thanks in advance.
ufuk

By: Daniel Wolff

Daniel Wolff — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:35:44 +0000

Hi There,

I’m looking for an answer to this problem for months.
I already try the tips for this article, and nothings changed.

Any help please?!

Thank you!

By: D. Adolf

D. Adolf — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:36:39 +0000

You can ignore my question above. I tried it one last time and got it to work.
Thanks.

By: D. Adolf

D. Adolf — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 17:30:17 +0000

I have the same issue mentioned above by Kar where I get a bunch of “B’s” inserted wherever there is a space or a return. I tried pasting the code into terminal (with straight quotes) but what has happened is that my only option now is “automatic” in the Text Encoding. All my other text encoding options have disappeared. Any reason why or how I can fix this?

Thanks!

By: DD

DD — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:41:38 +0000

I read somewhere else that when you use the terminal to force the encoding to UTF-8, it does NOT show up if you look under Message –> Encoding, but that it actually does it nonetheless (you can check by taking a sent email and viewing raw source and checking the encoding).

By: Bijan Kafi

Bijan Kafi — Fri, 04 May 2007 14:15:24 +0000

I’ve tried the above commands but can’t get it to work as the specified folder does not seem to exist on my MBP.

I can get to Applications, but Applications is actually empty. Any hints?

By: Tim Gaden

Tim Gaden — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:54:25 +0000

Freddy, you need to repeat the process described above but replace “UTF-8″ at the end of the string with “US-ASCII” or whatever else is your favourite flavour of text encoding.

By: Freddy

Freddy — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:54:36 +0000

How can I reverse it? After doing this, all the messages from my mac1.forum arrive with no subject. I need to have subject visible. If I want to revert it to the original style, how can I do it?

By: Philippe DEWOST

Philippe DEWOST — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 07:53:35 +0000

Another glitch is the fact that when you “position” attachments in your text (instead of placing them at the bottom of your e-mail), using “Text” instead of “RTF” text formatting, Mail.app displays them nicely but it often occurs that your recipients only see the first part of your message, as well as the first attachment, but not was follows further down in the message…

By: Steve Hyde

Steve Hyde — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:30:23 +0000

Hi Tim,

Reading the above text, I wonder if the UTF8 solution will help me with a similar problem I’m having, which isn’t text related but attachment related.

When we send mails with attachments to one of our clients (Windows user) the attachments often arrive embedded in the mail and not as attachments which means that they can’t save the files to disk. The problem often (but not always) occurs even if we select “display as icon” before sending the mail.

Is this also an encoding problem? Would the process described above resolve this for us or is there another solution?