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title: "How Do I Force ContentType - Charset in Mails into UTF-8?"
slug: "how-do-i-force-contenttype-charset-in-mails-into-utf-8"
description: "This article explains how to force ContentType - Charset in Mails into UTF-8. Detailed information can be found by reading the article."
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# How Do I Force ContentType - Charset in Mails into UTF-8?

This article explains how to force **ContentType - Charset** in **Mails** into **UTF-8**.

The **Mail**/**Exchange**/**Outlook Output Port** analyzes the text in **Mailbody** and will automatically choose the best encoding and charset based on the characters used in a body. It auto-recognizes the language of characters. If a mix of languages is present, then **UTF-8** is chosen as the charset. Otherwise, the most commonly used charset for email for a particular language is automatically used.

In some cases, the receiver Mail system requires **UTF-8**.

It is not possible to hardcode it to **UTF-8**, so we need to add a UTF-8 character in the text, and it has to be in the script to set it right. In script, it is possible to set a Unicode character; for example, a no-break space like this: **\uFEFF**.

So, if using HTML as the output on a sheet, you can add the extra character like this on a rearrange:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image-M75Y24HW.png)

```plaintext
function AddUTFCharacter()
{
 var a = CurrentText;
 a = a + "\uFEFF"
 return a;
}
```

The result can be seen in receiving email by right-clicking in the mail body and choosing the view source.

Result without the script:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image-YHQJXAA2.png)

Result with the script:

![](https://cdn.document360.io/c831ef63-c6b3-48ee-b443-3e33644e4e2e/Images/Documentation/image-7YEATI70.png)