Gmail ignores the traditional content type and converts the content to UTF-8

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Now if you have been able to digest all those binary conversions that indicates that everything is well and good, except that like almost everything else in the world of email marketing it is not that easy or simple to implement. Most email clients will take the content type from your email header and display it in the way you have determined. However, Gmail is very popular as Android, iPhone, iPad and all the variants all ignore what content type they have and how you can convert text to UTF-8 if your email address is designed to be displayed in that stream or not.


How do you get around this? The best way is to convert all your special characters to their HTML entities and equivalents as you enter them into your canada business fax list email. So, instead of entering a sign, you enter quotation marks and so on. Fortunately there are HTML entities for almost every symbol you want to display, although some of the more esoteric ones like poker card symbols are not universally supported so while it is possible to use and so on, you may still end up getting a strange, unintended symbol in some email clients. Pay close attention to character sets or your emails will become a total mess.



The most popular encoding of the Unicode character set is the UTF-8 version, which translates binary data into numbers compared to Unicode which translates numbers into characters. Still, are you still with me? Good.