Why do Arabic characters turn into “?” when I forward/send an email from e2a?



While e2a supports Arabic characters when composing emails, the issue happens when Salesforce actually sends the email. Salesforce applies a character encoding setting for outbound emails — and if that encoding doesn’t support Arabic, the text is converted to "?", so the Arabic characters are lost in the sent email.
 


Why It Happens

e2a allows you to write and view Arabic text inside Salesforce, and the app itself supports Arabic characters in the email body. However, when Salesforce sends the email on behalf of e2a, it uses the Salesforce email encoding configured for that user or template. If the encoding is a Western character set (like ISO-8859-1 / Latin-1), it cannot represent Arabic characters. As a result, Salesforce replaces unsupported characters with "?".


How to Fix It

To ensure Salesforce preserves Arabic characters when sending:

  1. Click your user avatar (top right in Salesforce).

  2. Go to: Settings → My Personal Information → Advanced User Details

  3. Click Edit

  4. Change Email Encoding to: Unicode (UTF-8)

  5. Click Save


Why this works


Notes & Tips

 

Please contact support@ortooapps.com for any questions.