Problems with Special Characters (German Umlaute ä, ö, ü,

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Problems with Special Characters (German Umlaute ä, ö, ü,

Post by newspa »

Hello,

I got Problems with the Special Characters like ß “ and the German „Umlaute“ ä ö ü. When i send a Testmail they appear fine on my mac (entourage) but they dont appear on my pc (outlook).
Is there a possibility to control the charset?
How to solve the problem?

Thanks and greetings
hari
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Post by hari »

I have nearly the same problem.

I create the mailings in openemm with the ISO-8859-1 charset.
Outlook (2003 and 2007) opens mails by default with the UTF-8 charset and so I got problems with the special characters like ß,ä,ö,ü.
I have this problem only if I create a new mailing. If I send an old mail with the new template, outlook take the right charset (ISO-8859-1) by default. --> No problems with the template.
My webmail-account (f.e. gmx.de) opens the new and old mailings by default with the right (ISO-8859-1) charset.
I know it is possible to change the charset in Outlook but I can't tell it every each recipient that they have to change the charset.

I have also the problem that I can't import recipients with special characters like Müller or Roßleitner. Maybe there is a coherence between these problems.

How can I solve these problems?
Thanks!
hari
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Post by hari »

I use OpenEMM 5.5.1.
Furthermore I added a meta-tag to the template, but it didn't work:

<meta content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" />

Has somebody an idea? It is very urgent.
Thank you!
hari
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Post by hari »

Has anybody an idea? Do you need more information?

Thanks for support!
Last edited by hari on Fri Jan 29, 2010 7:28 am, edited 1 time in total.
hari
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Post by hari »

Is there any possibility to solve the problem?
hari
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Post by hari »

I use OpenEMM 5.5.1.

I try to explain the problem in a different way:
I create a new Mailing (Subject, Names ...) and charset ISO 8859-1.

My first Template:
Text:
[agnDYN name="Text"/]
ÄÖÜß ABCD

HTML:
[agnDYN name="HTML-Version"/]
ÄÖÜß ABCD


Result Text-Version:
My Webmail Account (gmx.de) uses the right charset ISO 8859-1: ÄÖÜß ABCD
Microsoft Office (2007) uses the wrong charset Unicode UTF-8 but the mailing is right: ÄÖÜß ABCD

Result HTML- Version:
My Webmail Account (gmx.de) uses the right charset ISO 8859-1: ÄÖÜß ABCD
Microsoft Office (2007) uses the wrong charset UTF8: Ä–ÜŸ ABCD


My second Template:
Text:
[agnDYN name="Text"/]
ÄÖÜß ABCD

HTML:
<html>
<head>
<title>Newsletter</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<h1>ÄÖÜß ABCD</h1>
</body>
</html>

Result Text-Version is the same like above.

Result HTML-Version:
My Webmail Account (gmx.de) uses the right charset ISO 8859-1: ÄÖÜß ABCD
Microsoft Office (2007) uses the wrong charset UTF8: Ä–ÜŸ ABCD

I have this problem only if I create a new mailing. If I send an old mail with these templates, outlook take the right charset (ISO-8859-1) by default. --> No problems with the template.

How can I solve these problems?
Thank you very much!
hari
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Post by hari »

I solved the problem!

The reason was, that I used special characters like ÄÖÜß… in the subject! If you use special characters in the subject, return address,
name, etc. MS Outlook uses the UTF-8 charset instead of the ISO-8859-1 charset.
erwinseher2
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Re: Problems with Special Characters (German Umlaute ä, ö,

Post by erwinseher2 »

Have the same problem.
Import UTF CSV File. Problem with Special Characters (� -> should be ÜüÖöÄä or ß)

is there any solution?

Best regards
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