In the Preferences menu, select Composing. Open Microsoft Outlook and click on Outlook in the menu bar on your Mac. Two examples of these strange characters would be Š and â.įor this example, I will be using Microsoft Outlook 2016 although, the steps are the same for Microsoft Outlook 2011. In this blog, I will be going over how to set all new emails in Microsoft Outlook to be set in Unicode UTF-8 encoding.
Have you experienced strange characters appearing in your email messages in Microsoft Outlook for Mac? This can be caused by composing a new email that is not encoded in Unicode (UTF-8).