Comments on: Converting UTF-8 Data to Outlook Compatible Charset

By: Anibal Trejo

Anibal Trejo — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:58:11 +0000

Thanks! Ive used part of this info to solve Outlook problem reading my html generated signature. Since i have spanish with accents on it, Outlook was translating accented characters into rubbish. :)

By: Jack Heath

Jack Heath — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:52:10 +0000

This issue was related to the system not reading the correct encoding for the file. It was a common bug in 2003 which may carry over to Outlook 2007/2010 emails sent from an unpatched 2003 client in text format. To resolve it, I just opened an email (any email will work) and added then encoding option to the quick-bar, then I selected UTF-8 as an encoding option. Once done, Outlook will add UTF-8 to the list and be able to autos-elect between both UTF-Western and UTF-8 formats.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:50:55 +0000

Ahh, good to know.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:28:55 +0000

We have this problem on Outlook 2007, we send the body as UTF-8 with the correct encoding type in header, but Outlook views it as not UTF-8.

By: thomas

thomas — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:26:50 +0000

Hew what about outlook 2007 ? but character encoding problems ? Thanks for your info man ! Help Me

By: Jorrit Schippers

Jorrit Schippers — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:33:12 +0000

This article suggests that Outlook 2003 is incapable of accepting UTF-8 messages. This is not true. It might be a component between the originating mailserver and Outlook that mangles the contents, as I have experienced myself. To be on the safe side, use Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable (and encode the contents accordingly)