Symptom
- E-mails with special KOI8-U encoded characters get corrupted and are not legible
- The system displays these characters as ###'s
Environment
SAP Cloud for Customer core applicaion
Reproducing the Issue
- Send an e-mail that uses KOI8-U (RFC 2319) encoded characters
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The e-mail All characters of pasted text appear as #.
Cause
- Using different encodings can cause some issues.
- E-mail content can have two levels of encoding.
- One at the e-mail header levels, against the MIME section, and
- at the HTML tag level, against the "metadata" tag.
- This mismatch leads to certain characters corruption
Resolution
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E-mail messages containing unsupported formatting codes may cause escape codes to appear in the message content.
Inorder to resolve this you can follow below steps:
- In Microsoft Outlook, select File -> Options.
- The Outlook Options window is displayed.
- From the Outlook options, click Advanced.
- Within the International options section, ensure that Automatically select encoding for outgoing messages is set to Unicode (UTF-8).
- Click OK to save changes.
- And restart your Outlook.
See Also
2594426 - Encoding Types for Emails in Tickets
Keywords
KBA , LOD-CRM-SC-EML , Email , LOD-CRM-SRP , Service Request Processing , Product Enhancement
Product
SAP Cloud for Customer add-ins 1802 ; SAP Cloud for Customer core applications 1802 ; SAP Cloud for Customer core applications 2108