# system.net.sendEmail encoding

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-net-sendemail-encoding/40013>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 26, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-net-sendemail-encoding/40013 "2020-10-26T13:14:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jakned](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4da419/32.png) [@jakned](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jakned)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-net-sendemail-encoding/40013/1 "2020-10-26T13:14:23Z")

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Hello, I am trying to send an email that has following subject (in Czech):

“Nový posun”

and what I receive is:

“Nov?? posun”

How do I make sending email contents with diacritics work properly?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-net-sendemail-encoding/40013/2 "2020-10-26T13:20:38Z")

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What does your script look like? Are you using the unicode string literal when setting the subject and/or body?

```auto
subject = u"Nový posun"

```

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**Author:** ![jakned](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4da419/32.png) [@jakned](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jakned)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/system-net-sendemail-encoding/40013/3 "2020-10-26T14:24:16Z")

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That was it. I did not use the string literal.