Character Encoding Conversion Error When Using Emacs with Outlook

Question

I am currently using outlookedit.el to round emails from Outlook to stay sane when it matches people. It works great except when I have to use special characters, in this case åäö, which are used in the Swedish style.

When I open an email containing these characters in Outlook (Cc oe), they all look normal in Emacs, but when I save my changes back to Outlook (Cc os), "åäö" turns into "à ¥ ää" "Returning to Emacs (Cc oe), they again converted Emacs to åäö.

If instead of using outlookedit.el I copy / paste the text between character conversion in Outlook and Emacs, it seems to work fine, but I would prefer not to do it that way.

I tried to force Outlook to encode email in both US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1, and UTF-8 under "Options" → "Mail Format" → "International Settings" ... but the result is always the same .

How can I (preferably) change my .emacs to handle character conversion correctly, or reconfigure Outlook to make these characters circulate?

My current Emacs configuration is for testing at http://github.com/dholm/dotemacs/ .

Answer 1

I am assuming something happens between Shell and outlookedit.el with your character encoding. You can try setting the default encoding system of your buffer to UTF-8, ASCII, or CP-1252 (the default is the default).