Unicode and Email
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Many email clients 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 fonts capable of displaying the full range of unicode code points.
As with all encodings apart from us-ascii, when using unicode text in email MIME must be used to specify that a unicode transformation format is being used for the text. UTF-7 has the advantage over other unicode encodings that it does not require further encoding to fit within the 7 bit limits of the standard email system. UTF-8 and UTF-16 on the other hand must be encoded in base64 or quoted-printable before sending.
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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… > Display > 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 to emails outlook uses the same charset as the mail it is replying to. All unicode charaters can be entered in the edit box but ones not availible in the selected encoding will be silently replaced (usually with a ?) when sending the message!
