What is correct Encoding for Scandinavin characters to Outlook 365 ?

Question

Hello

$PSDefaultParameterValues['*:Encoding'] = 'utf8'

$Outlook = New-Object -ComObject Outlook.Application
$Mail = $Outlook.CreateItem(0)

Encoding = New-Object System.Text.UTF8Encoding

$Mail.To = "receiver@something .email"
$Mail.Cc = "copytome@something .email"
$Mail.importance = 2
$Mail.Subject = "komentoriviltä lähetetty"
$Mail.Body ="liitetiedostossa koodi, "
$Mail.Attachments.add("C:\Users\X\Desktop\test123.txt")

$Mail.Send()

Script works and sends email via powershell.

Question is: what should be encoding for scandinavian characters ?
in this line: $PSDefaultParameterValues['*:Encoding'] = 'utf8' <-----------

Thanks Mike.

Answer 1

Hello

Thank you for your question and reaching out. I can understand you are having query related to UFT in Email

For best overall compatibility, avoid using BOMs in UTF-8 files. Unix platforms and Unix-heritage utilities also used on Windows Platforms don't support BOMs.

PowerShell defaults to utf8NoBOM for all output.

Reference

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_character_encoding?view=powershell-7.2

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Answer 2

UTF8 would be the correct encoding. However, actually displaying the information correctly depends on the code page and font in use at the time.

For Scandinavian countries I think the code page 1252 (for many European countries). If the characters aren't displaying correctly, check the current code page by using the "chcp" DOS command. You may find that it's set to "437".