Archive for June, 2007

How to force UTF-8 encoding in mail.app

Posted on June 4th, 2007 in Code, Asides

Just open up the terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset “UTF-8”

It was that easy. Not everyone has to do that I guess, but if you, like me, have had a problem with Outlook users asking you why you’re writing to them in Chinese, this might help get them off your back