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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