Character decoding characters of other written languages for .Text about enmime HOT 3 CLOSED

Why would you expect the correct encoding?

Your email doesn't have the conten-type header with no charset define?

Have you tried actually testing which charset is detected by the library and to which it tries to convert the content?

If you specify actually on your sample the utf-8 charset and the and the header, the parsing works
https://play.golang.com/p/M6A0RlQx_oE

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Pedro is right, correctly encoded mail should contain charset encoding headers.

Enmime does attempt to use the chardet library to figure out character sets when possible:

It may not have enough information to detect correctly here.

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Thank you both, I think you have actually answered my question here - I just found https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/7_1_Text.html which states The default Content-Type for Internet mail is "text/plain; charset=us-ascii" (I assumed this was UTF8). Sorry for the "issue", I'll mark this as resolved, thanks again :)

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