Encode special char in SES mail template

Question

Hi,

I'm using SES to send email from template. 
In my template i have some special chars (é, è, à)

I receive this mail with char like this : éÃ©tÃ© enregistrÃ©eé instead of this "été enregistréeé

In my template i added encoding this without success. Itried too UTF8 without more results

> été enregistrée

For this i use node js to send mail

```
let params = {
      Source: 'test@outlook.com',
      Template: templateName,
      Destination: {
        ToAddresses: [ 
          recipientEmail
        ]
      },
      TemplateData: JSON.stringify(data)
    };
    let res = {};
    try{
      res = await AWS_SES.sendTemplatedEmail(params).promise();
    }
    catch (e) {
      console.log(e);
      res = e;
      throw(e); 
    }
```

Someone has a solution to send this chars correctly formated?

Thanks

Answer

i've tried to send email by retrieving first the template and then send with sendRawEmail. When i get back the html from the template. It's not correctly encoded and i have this back > "

Bonjour,

Une personne a utilisÃ© le formulaire de contact du site. Ã Ã© Ã¨

Nom: {{name}}
Email: {{email}}
Sujet: {{subject}}

Message:
{{message}}

Cordialement,
Kids&Fun,

"

Answer

Email needs a lot of encoding. The default for email is to have 7bit us-ascii data only and body parts then need to be encoded using quoted-printable or base64. But since most (if not all) mail systems and readers support 8bit data, you can make an html body part look like this:

```
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

été enregistrée 
```

make sure your template is actually in the utf-8 charset and this should work fine. Note that the charset in the email headers should be the same as the one mentioned in the html meta tag.

Encode special char in SES mail template

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