Email signature encoding

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Heliotte Posted messages 1561 Status Member -
Hello,

I need to create email signatures for my colleagues using Outlook.
I have made my file in HTML using Notepad++ so that it works on all mailboxes. All special characters have been encoded, including.

Unfortunately, I don't have Outlook but Windows Live Mail 2012, which makes testing a bit difficult.

I realized that when printing my email (as our clients might do), the accented characters were not encoded (for example, "é" for "é"), while everything looks fine in my email (I remind you that I am using Windows Live Mail).

While searching a bit, I found that my HTML file was by default encoded in ANSI. Could the problem be coming from there?

If so, is it sufficient to choose "Convert to UTF-8" (with or without BOM?) for everything to be interpreted correctly?

Thank you for your help.

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  1. Heliotte Posted messages 1561 Status Member 92
     
    Good evening kokeshi,

    Generally, "Convert to UTF-8, without BOM" works.. but it still needs to be tested anyway.

    I've already seen issues with accents in emails due to the "Demon" antivirus!
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    1. kokeshi
       
      Hello,

      Thank you for your response!

      Indeed, it works almost... I had to go through a whole lot of detours to really convert it. When I reopened the file, it was encoded in ANSI again. I had to go through the new document preferences for it to actually be taken into account.

      One issue remains: I still have
      '
      lingering in the emails and I don't know why. Do you have any leads on this?

      Well, it's already a good step forward, thank you :)
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    2. Heliotte Posted messages 1561 Status Member 92
       
      The others work but not the apostrophe?? I'm stuck.. dry.
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    3. kokeshi
       
      I don't understand either. I bypassed the problem by using
      ’
      instead of
      '


      Everything is working, that's the main thing.

      Thank you very much for your help!

      Have a good day.
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    4. Heliotte Posted messages 1561 Status Member 92
       
      an idea, see with the HTML code of special characters on the Internet
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