How to force UTF-8 encoding in mail.app
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
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Does this still work in Snow Leopard?
#1 Anzen Sam 13 Oct 09
Just tried it and it seems to work: when I include some non-ascii characters in an email, Mail.app doesn’t attempt to figure out an appropriate 8-bit encoding for the content (e.g. windows-1252) — it uses utf-8 instead. However, if only 7-bit ascii is used, it still gets sent as unencoded 7-bit ascii.
#2 Vladimir Vrzić 25 Mar 10
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