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Email Encoding
International Character Sets (charsets) for Email Newsletter Messages

The program chooses the correct charset during the installation, so in most cases you don't need to change anything as long as you are sending messages in the same language (and charset) as your system language (and charset).

The charset setting is obsolete! MailList Controller Version 9 (or newer) is written in Unicode and sends out all messages in utf-8 format.
Utf-8 contains all characters, so you don't need to care about the charset any longer.


a) Change the charset of the plain-text part and the mail-header

You can change the charset for the mail header and plain-text in the "List Settings" -> "List Details" -> "Charset".


What Charset should I use?

USA and (most) Western Europe: iso-8859-1 or  windows-1252
e.g. German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
iso-8859-1 is missing some characters for French and Finnish text. Please use windows-1252 for these characters instead of iso-8859-1!
Language: Charset:
Chinese gb2312 ... see also: "Encountered an improper argument" on Chinese systems (Import)
Czech windows-1250
Dutch iso-8859-1
English iso-8859-1
French windows-1252
Finnish windows-1252
German iso-8859-1
Greek windows-1253
Italian iso-8859-1
Japanese shift-jis
Portuguese iso-8859-1
Russian windows-1251
Spanish iso-8859-1
Türkce iso-8859-9


What charsets are available?

There are many different charsets available. Please try the windows charsets if you have problems using the ISO charsets.

  • iso-8859-1 (Latin 1) - default charset
  • iso-8859-2 (Latin 2)
  • iso-8859-3 (Latin 3)
  • iso-8859-4 (Baltic)
  • iso-8859-5 (Cyrillic)
  • iso-8859-6 (Arabic)
  • iso-8859-8 (Hebrew)
  • iso-8859-9 (Turkish)
  • iso-8859-15 (Latin 9)
  • windows-1250 (Central European Alphabet)
  • windows-1251 (Cyrillic Alphabet)
  • windows-1252 (Western Alphabet)
  • windows-1253 (Greek Alphabet)
  • windows-1254 (Turkish Alphabet)
  • windows-1255 (Hebrew Alphabet)
  • windows-1256 (Arabic Alphabet)
  • windows-1257 (Baltic Alphabet)
  • windows-1258 (Vietnamese Alphabet)
  • windows-874 (Thai)
  • gb2312 (Chinese)
  • euc-kr (Korean)
  • shift-jis (Japanese)
  • ...


b) Change the charset of the HTML part

The charset setting is obsolete! MailList Controller Version 9 (or newer) is written in Unicode and sends out all messages in utf-8 format.
Utf-8 contains all characters, so you don't need to care about the charset any longer.

If you are sending the message in the same language as your system language (and charset), then you don't need to change anything, the html edit control will select the charset automatically.

If you want to send out a message in a different language (and charset) then you need to change the charset in the List Settings (see a.) and also in the html part of the message.

e.g.

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">


Sample for Cyrillic (windows-1251):


UTF-8:

You can also use utf-8 as charset for the html code (its not recommeded to use utf-8 for the header and plain-text - use it for the html part only).

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

This allows you to send out html messages in any language, including Japanese, Chinese, ...
You can also import a HTML file using utf-8 from an external html editor using "Import" -> "HTML File".


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Version 9.03 (Download)
Release 07-MAY-2012
Software for: Windows 2000/XP, Windows Server, Windows Vista, Windows 7

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