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R. Bitrary
R. Bitrary

Reputation: 11

Outlook removes line breaks UTF-8 and Plain Text mails, regardless of the configuration

Outlook 2013 up to the latest Office 365 build seem to remove line breaks in Plain Text mails.

Outlook Options:

If I open a new E-mail, set it to Plain Text and enter:

> Foo
> Bar
> Baz

the e-mail will still be formatted to:

> Foo > Bar > Baz

Chaning the international options to Western European ISO will fix this and send the e-mail as intended. System locale is de_DE.

Is there a way to maintain line breaks + UTF-8? Its realy annoying when answering mails.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 884

Answers (1)

R. Bitrary
R. Bitrary

Reputation: 11

Finally found the solution, leaving it here:

  1. Non-english Windows 10:
  • Windows Settings App (New Version)
  • Date & Region
  • Language
  • Administrative Language Options
  • Language for Unicode incompatible Apps: Change Regional Scheme Button
  • Make sure the Country matches.
  • Disable "Beta: Unicode UTF-8 support for worldwide languages" Thats requirement #1.

Full reboot is now needed and cannot be avoided.

  1. Outlook 365:
  • File
  • Settings
  • Advanced
  • [x] Automatic encoding for Outgoing e-mails
  • Prefered encoding for Outgoing e-mails: Unicode (UTF-8) Thats requirement #2
  • Same for vCards.

It seems plaintext messages in de_DE win-10, de_DE outlook 365 + exchange server only work reliable in this combination.

Otherwise any \r\n is removed by Outlook, regardless of the "Remove unneccessary whitespace" setting.

Upvotes: 1

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