how to change system email encoding

You to add a MailEncoding directive in your mt-config.cgi see http://www.movabletype.org/documentation/appendices/config-directives/mailencoding.html

Rob, than you!

I've changed that, but it keeps sending in ISO-8859-1. I've noticed quite a mess with encoding in the templates... it could be ISO-8859-1, then utf-8 etc...

Hi Rob,

Does it look right:

MailTransfer sendmail
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

There must be something wrong here... somewhere... Emails are still in ISO-8859-1.

sash

I think MailEncoding UTF-8 in mt-config.cgi should work. To be honest it is not something I have needed to do.

Rob,

Thank you a lot!

It's not working at the moment; having checked my DB charset, I think it's related to some template setting...

Thank you once again!
Sash

Hi,

I'd like to rase this issue once again: notwithstanding what I do, MT sends all its email notifications in ISO-8859-1.

How can I change the email notification encoding in utf-8 ?

I'm sure I'm not the only one with this issue.

Thanks,
sash

Hi,

I'd like to raise this issue once again: notwithstanding what I do, MT sends all its email notifications in ISO-8859-1.

How can I change the email notification encoding in utf-8 ?

I'm sure I'm not the only one with this issue.

Thanks,
sash

I have the same problem.

There is evidently an error in documentation, since adding Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 just does nothing.

The Japanese MT website gives the correct directive for the Japanese language:
MailEncoding ISO-2022-JP

I've tried this directive and it works - the encoding of notification emails changes from ISO-8859-1 to ISO-2022-JP.

But when I try to use UTF-8 or KOI8-R or Windows-1251 or ISO-8859-5 the comments just won't go through. With any of these encodings in mt-config the following error appears when I click the Submit button:
Wide character in subroutine entry

Any ideas how to correct this?

I've found the solution for this problem on a Japanese website.

You'll need to edit the EncWords.pm file, found in \extlib\MIME

Find the following line (~176):
encode_base64($str, '');

Replace it with:
encode_base64(encode_utf8($str), '');

Above it, add the following line:
use Encode qw(encode_utf8);

(I've added this immediately after the comment "# Private: used by encode_mimeword() to encode "B" encoding" two lines above)

Now you can add
MailEncoding UTF-8
in your mt-config.cgi

Hope, the Japanese development team is aware of this issue and will fix it in a new release.