Akatombo Web Log
Monday, September 11, 2006
Setting Default encoding in Mail.app
Since my menus are in English, Mail.app defaults to sending UTF-8 e-mails, but whenever people using Outlook Express(?) reply to my Japanese language mails it comes back as garbage unless they explicitly set the encoding. This has been a big problem for me, so with some research I figured out how to set the default encoding to what it would be where my system wide preferences set to display menus in Japanese - ISO-2022-JP
Just open up your terminal and enter
defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset “ISO-2022-JP”
- Posted by dc
awesome! i was searching everywhere for this.
out of interest, how did you figure this out???
September 23rd, 2006 06:48 AM - Posted by UltraBob
Glad it helped! I found it be searching everywhere for it like you were. I found it tough to find so I posted with my default search terms as the title. Hopefully its a bit easier to find now.
September 23rd, 2006 07:05 AM - Posted by dc
了解！
btw i just switched (back) to the mac. do you need any good info sources for ruby/bilingual/osx coding stuff in tokyo?
September 23rd, 2006 11:03 AM - Posted by UltraBob
Hey, sorry for the long delay in replying. I kind of forgot abotu this thread. Not sure what you are asking above though so I don’t know how to answer.
October 8th, 2006 04:38 PM