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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

1. Posted by dc

   awesome! i was searching everywhere for this.

   out of interest, how did you figure this out???

   September 23rd, 2006 03:48 PM
   
   
   
2. 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 04:05 PM
   
   
   
3. 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 08:03 PM
   
   
   
4. 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 9th, 2006 01:38 AM