Title: Character encoding
Last modified: June 23, 2017

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# Character encoding

 *  [jonathancole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonathancole/)
 * (@jonathancole)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-6/)
 * Character encoding sometimes gets broken – if sent from Outlook as HTML mail 
   then received in outlook.
 * Adding `$mail->CharSet = 'UTF-8';` just after `$mail = new PHPMailer();` in `
   wp-mailing-group/crons/wpmg_cron_send_email.php` seems to have solved the problem.

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 *  [Maryann R](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stopha/)
 * (@stopha)
 * [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-6/#post-9351271)
 * this worked for me, too.

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## Tags

 * [character encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/character-encoding/)
 * [phpmailer](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/phpmailer/)
 * [utf-8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf-8/)

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Maryann R](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stopha/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-6/#post-9351271)
 * Status: not resolved