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Recently some of our overseas customers said there were random Chinese characters appearing in our out-going emails. Apart from sending out attached Microsoft Word Files in the emails, are there other methods to avoid this problem?

One of our customers said:

“Please enable UNICODE UTF-8 encoding while using your e-mail software: this will enable me to read Chinese characters.”

What does this mean?

Thank you in advance for advice.

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See picture for how to do it in Thunderbird.

You can either send (simplified) emails in UTF-8 or GB2312. Email programs should be able to detect it automatically. Web-based email like Yahoo or Gmail might be more difficult as (for example) the webpage might be utf-8, but your email might be GB2312.

You could just tell your customer to set his encoding to GB2312 instead, that would probably work. But the customer is always right . . .

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