Comments on: Changing Apple Mail default encoding to unicode

By: Ain Tohvri

Ain Tohvri — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:52:51 +0000

Martin: try defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset "UTF-8" as well and restart Mail. Worked for me on Leopard (10.5.4).

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:34:03 +0000

defaults write com.apple.mail LeopardPreferredMailCharset “UTF-8″ does not work for me. Windows outlook or outlook express users still can’t see my e-mails correct! Please help.

By: BigCloits

BigCloits — Sat, 10 May 2008 17:21:06 +0000

No luck. Text encoding submenu continues to show “Automatic”, and headers of sent messages show charset=WINDOWS-1252.

By: Ain Tohvri

Ain Tohvri — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:26:33 +0000

Mac OS X Leopard users should use defaults write com.apple.mail LeopardPreferredMailCharset "UTF-8" to change their Apple Mail encoding to unicode/UTF8.

By: sam

sam — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:54:08 +0000

just FYI: to go back to the default settings, enter in Terminal:

defaults delete com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset

QUESTION:
setting the default CharSet as described above does not seem to work with os x 10.5 / leopard. any idea how to get it to work with leo?

By: Ain Tohvri

Ain Tohvri — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:56:26 +0000

AUTO doesn’t necessarily mean that messages are not being sent out as UTF-8.

Make yourself a test-case and see how it does. To do so:

1. Write a new message
2. Send it to yourself
3. Hit Cmd + Alt + U to see the source of the message once it arrives

Pay attention to content headers that define the charset, e.g.:

--Apple-Mail-9--610482582 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

By: ingrid

ingrid — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:46:51 +0000

The unicode terminal code defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset “UTF-8″ doesn’t work.
Still goes back to AUTO