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I just received the following e-mails where all "é" are turned into "Ž", eg. "prŽcŽdent" instead of "précédent".
Am I correct in understanding that it's due to the originating e-mail client running on a Macintosh without sending the charset infos so that other clients (Windows, Unix) can turn accented characters into their correct equivalent?
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\))
X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499)
Thank you.
OverTheRainbow
Posted 2015-04-06T21:37:57.133
Reputation: 5 153
Apple Mail usually adds charset info in mail headers (example). Maybe this particular client is misconfigured. Could you show the whole email (headers and body)?
– baf – 2015-04-07T11:19:45.493Thanks but the rest of the header contains no information that's relevant (just routing). I'll google for infos on how to configure Apple Mail to include charset infos. – OverTheRainbow – 2015-04-07T22:56:18.473
In my latest version of Mail (8.2 on Yosemite) there is even no option to change it. The encoding is detected automatically and proper header is set (I tested it). But I remember that in older versions (maybe yours) that was configurable. – baf – 2015-04-08T06:33:04.460