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Created: December 24th 2011
Last updated: May 1st 2020
Categories: Apple OS X
Author: Marcus Fleuti

Change apple mail charset to ISO-8859-1 to increase Outlook compatbility

Tags:  charset,  ISO-8859-1,  Outlook
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Apple mail uses the UTF-8 charset by default. Actually, that's a good thing but sometimes this leads to encoding issues when communicating with Microsoft Outlook clients.

defaults write com.apple.mail NSPreferredMailCharset "ISO-8859-1"