On 15 Apr 2026, at 6:59, Fjölnir Ásgeirsson wrote:
I recently received a Shift-JIS encoded email(!).
Wow! It's been well more than a decade (maybe 2) since I've seen that encoding!
And Mailmate was not able to guess the correct encoding to use and I just saw garbled text (Fastmail WebUI and Apple Mail handled it fine). I looked for an option to choose which text encoding to use, and couldn’t find it. Is that not possible?
Unless it's very well hidden, I don't see any way to do it in the documentation. That said, the MailMate help says:
MailMate can handle almost any kind of character encoding when receiving emails. This includes numerous workarounds for wrongly encoded emails, but when generating emails MailMate only uses “UTF-8”. This is not configurable.
It's been a long while since I've coded on the Mac, but the above says to me that Benny is passing the message through the MacOS "take a guess" i18n facility when he can, and I'd be really surprised that Apple Mail did it much differently. I'd be curious: When you "Show Raw Message" under the "View" menu (⌥⌘U), what does the "charset" parameter in the "Content-Type" field say for the message (or the part with the Shift-JIS in it)?
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