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Many E-mail Client s are now able to use Unicode . However most do not send in Unicode by default, and few systems are likely to be set up with Font s capable of displaying the full range of Unicode characters.

HTML e-mail can use HTML entities to use characters from anywhere in Unicode even if the HTML source text for the e-mail is in a legacy encoding. For details of this see Unicode And HTML . The rest of this article will deal with e-mail messages where the actual raw text (whether HTML markup or plain text) is in an encoding that covers the whole of unicode.

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UNICODE IN VARIOUS MAIL CLIENTS


Evolution

View > Character Encoding > Unicode

Tools > Settings > Mail Preferences and Composer Preferences > Check default Character Encoding to Unicode


Mozilla Thunderbird

View > Character Encoding > Unicode

Tools > Options… > Fonts > Outgoing Mail / Incoming Mail (change to Unicode)


MS Outlook

Outlook supports sending mail in UTF-7 and UTF-8 but does not do so by default. When replying, Outlook uses the same encoding as the message it is replying to. All Unicode characters can be entered in the edit box, but ones not available in the selected encoding will be silently replaced (usually with a question mark: ''?'') when sending the message.


Lotus Notes

Notes can send Unicode also:

1. From the menu, select File -> Preferences -> User Preferences.
2. Click Mail, then Internet.
3. Under "Multilingual Internet mail," choose an option.


Scribe/InScribe

Scribe will display Unicode with default settings. But you can override the charset specified in the headers by right clicking on the body and using the "Change Charset" menu to select a new charset. You can also configure preferred charsets for 8-bit text and us-ascii in the receive options.
When sending a suitable legacy charset (8-bit, e.g. ISO-8859-?? or Windows-????) is chosen automatically - however, if the message has a complicated script or a mixture of scripts, UTF-8 will be used by default. You can set a preferred legacy charset in the sending options panel to override the default charset choice. Characters not available in the current font will be substituted from another font installed on the system (if available).


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