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Michael Lee - 09 Aug 2006 08:03 GMT

Does anyone know how to specify the character encoding used in email
produced by mail merge? I was sending a Word file containing both
Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters using mail merge email, and
the resulting email uses gb2312. However, I would like to use UTF-8 because
some recipients are using email clients that cannot read gb2312.

Thanks!

Michael Lee

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Graham Mayor - 09 Aug 2006 09:37 GMT

I suspect this is a function of your e-mail application. In Outlook
investigate tools > options > mail format > international options and
uncheck 'auto select encoding for outgoing messages'. Which presumably
causes the e-mail to choose the most suitable encoding for your Chinese
characters.?

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> Does anyone know how to specify the character encoding used in email
> produced by mail merge? I was sending a Word file containing both
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Michael Lee - 10 Aug 2006 10:44 GMT

Thanks. After unchecking that option, the resulting email is in UTF-8.

Michael Lee

> I suspect this is a function of your e-mail application. In Outlook
> investigate tools > options > mail format > international options and
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