# ActionMaler problems with accented characters

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmaler-problems-with-accented-characters/161464>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 26, 2009, 7:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmaler-problems-with-accented-characters/161464 "2009-02-26T19:00:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![cassiozen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@cassiozen](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cassiozen)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2009, 7:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/actionmaler-problems-with-accented-characters/161464/1 "2009-02-26T19:00:51Z")

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Hello everybody,

I have an application that sends html emails, but all the accented  
characters (the messages are in portuguese) are shown incorrectly.

I’ve already used ActionMailer::Base.default\_charset = “utf-8” but i  
didn’t work.

Does anyone knows how to solve this problem?

Thanks,

Cassio de Souza Antonio  
Ruby on Rails & Flash Developer  
[http://blog.devlab.com.br](http://blog.devlab.com.br)  
[http://tr.im/cassio](http://tr.im/cassio)