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How to force ContentType - Charset in Mails into UTF-8

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This article shows how to force ContentType - Charset in Mails into UTF-8. 

The Mail/Exchange/Outlook Output Port analyzes the text in Mailbody and will automatically choose the best encoding and charset based on the characters used in a body. It auto-recognizes the language of characters. If a mix of languages is present, then UTF-8 is chosen as the charset. Otherwise, the most commonly used charset for email for a particular language is automatically used.

In some cases, the receiver Mail system requires UTF-8.

It is not possible to hardcode it to UTF-8 so we need to put in a UTF-8 character in the text and it has to be in script to set it right. In script, it is possible to set a Unicode character; for example a no-break space like this:  \uFEFF.

So if using HTML as the output on a sheet, you can add the extra character like this on a rearrange:


Script
function AddUTFCharacter() { var a = CurrentText; a = a + "\uFEFF" return a; }


The result can be seen in receiving email by right-clicking in the mail body and choosing the view source.

Result without the script:


Result with the script:

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