The CHARSET command specifies a method for presenting email characters in various languages. Emails are always encoded, and for correct display of various character sets such as À, Á, Â, Ã, Ä, Å, Æ etc., an appropriate character set has to be used. The default and recommended encoding is Unicode UTF-8 standard.
Command syntax
- febootimail -CHARSET iso-8859-1
- febootimail -CHARSET Windows-1252
By default, febootimail uses UTF-8 encoding. However, in specific cases, you might need to specify an alternative character set.
febootimail -SERVER smtp.example.net -FROM ed@example.net -TO john@example.com -TEXT -USEFILE report.txt -CHARSET US-ASCIISome other popular character sets are: Western (ISO-8859-1), Western (Windows-1252), Central European (ISO-8859-2), Central European (Windows-1250).
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Quick look
- Quick start · start sending the CMD email in minutes
- Tips & Tricks · a few quick email tricks
- Email attachments · use simple wildcards or advanced file masks to attach multiple files
- Debug email client-server connection · use DEBUG and advanced DEBUGX commands
- Parameter substitution using USEFILE and CONFIG · use a text file as any parameter
- Batch file & errorlevels · errorlevel values can be used in conditional processing
- Command Line Email parameters · see all email commands
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