Web Wiz Support and Community Forums : Encoding of email notifications https://forums.webwiz.net/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:39:41 +0000 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:33:41 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.08 360 https://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=24446 <![CDATA[Web Wiz Support and Community Forums]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://forums.webwiz.net/ <![CDATA[Encoding of email notifications : In the present version encoding...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/encoding-of-email-notifications_topic24446_post127790.html#127790 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 24446
Posted: 19 September 2007 at 8:33am

In the present version encoding is not set in the emails. It has to be done at the component level and is different for each email component that is supported.

It will be looked at for future versions to be able to set the encoding with the email component for those email components which support this.
]]> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:33:41 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/encoding-of-email-notifications_topic24446_post127790.html#127790 <![CDATA[Encoding of email notifications : I looked at the header of a forum...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/encoding-of-email-notifications_topic24446_post127765.html#127765 Author: Nick-V
Subject: 24446
Posted: 18 September 2007 at 9:00pm

I looked at the header of a forum email (which is html) and there was no encoding defined however the third line of the html (when saved to desktop and opened in notepad) was:
 
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
 
I looked at the header of a Skype email (which is plain text) and the following encoding statement appears (clearly, there is only text in the file itself):
 
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
I hope this helps.
]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2007 21:00:20 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/encoding-of-email-notifications_topic24446_post127765.html#127765 <![CDATA[Encoding of email notifications : I&#039;ve extracted my concern...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/encoding-of-email-notifications_topic24446_post127760.html#127760 Author: Nick-V
Subject: 24446
Posted: 18 September 2007 at 8:28pm

I've extracted my concern from an existing thread to here.
 
Borg, you mentioned that I am seeing the odd weird character (such as 'A hat') in email notifications as my client is using the wrong encoding. Sure enough, when I switch my standard installation of Outlook 2003 to use UTF-8 on a posting from this forum everything appears fine.
 
However, I'm certain you don't intend all forum members using Outlook (and probably other clients) to change the encoding for each forum email they receive so some part of the solution is missing for me at the moment.
 
I guess the encoding is supposed to be determined by an indicator within the message.
Emails from this forum seem to be recognised as Western European (ISO) as are CNN's messages...however messages from Skype are being recognised as Unicode UTF-8. Is the UTF-8 indicator missing from forum emails?
 
Let me know if I need to try something or help by providing further info.
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