Converting charset/encoding with ActionMailer

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Hi,

I need to change encoding on outgoing mails in ActionMailer. Since our users to a surprisingly large degree still use email-clients that doesn't support UTF-8 we need to convert our mails to ISO-8859-1. Is there any built-in support for this in ActionMailer?

Thanks a lot!

/David W

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Hi

I believe there are 2 ways to do this.

  • in environment.rb set ActionMailer::Base.default_charset = “ISO-8859-1” or
  • from within a method in your Mailer class set @charset = “ISO-8859-1”

Take Care

Aneesha