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Asked: 2026-06-07T18:07:46+00:00

I have a client that receive mails from the website, in four languages: Italian,

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I have a client that receive mails from the website, in four languages: Italian, English, German, and Russian.
Everything is fine except Russian, and he is using Windows Live Mail.

Is there any ISO character set that can replace UTF-8 and support these languages?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Grabbing an arbitrary email message from by inbox in Windows Live Mail 2011, displays fine:

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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 10:31:46 -0700
Subject: =?UTF-8?B?KEludml0YXRpb24pIENhc2FibGFuY2EgKEV2ZW50SUQ2MzgzKQ==?=
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
    boundary="--boundary_251791_d10ae85f-6531-47e3-9bd7-dc701f50b1c6"

----boundary_251791_d10ae85f-6531-47e3-9bd7-dc701f50b1c6
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

PCFET0NUWVBFIEhUTUwgUFVCTElDICItLy9XM0MvL0RURCBIVE1MIDQuMCBUcmFuc2l0aW9u
...etc
ZnQgQ29ycG9yYXRpb24KT25lIE1pY3Jvc29mdCBXYXkKUmVkbW9uZCwgV0EgOTgwNTI=
----boundary_251791_d10ae85f-6531-47e3-9bd7-dc701f50b1c6--

    Note the prolific use of utf-8 in both the subject and the message body and the base64 encoding to avoid the message from getting mangled by email gateways.

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