Emojis in Apple Mail Subject Line

[efrisch]

hi everybody,

We use emojis in our subject line by UTF8 encoding them, e.g.

=?UTF-8?Q?Schon gewusst? =F0=9F=92=A1 Spannende Insights ?=

They work perfectly in all email apps and browsers, except apple email app. 

Has anybody experienced that issue and found a solution for that?

Thank you & kind regards,

Elisabeth

[Sandeepkumar2]

⚠️ This post has been edited by a moderator for relevance.

Most email clients support emojis in all the ways, IOS also supports them but should be above OS X 10.7 Lion, here is a great article for using emojis https://www.litmus.com/blog/emoji-support-in-email-can-your-subscribers-see-them/

[SanfordWhiteman]

Can you tell me the exact version of Apple Mail you’re testing on? And is this the Mac OS desktop and/or iOS version?

[efrisch]

yes of course: Apple Mail, newest update on iPhone 12 Pro, iOS Version 16.5

[SanfordWhiteman · Accepted solution]

The problem is your Q-encoding is wrong.

In a Q-encoded sequence, if you need a literal question mark ? character it needs to be encoded as =3F, since the question mark has (extremely) special meaning in Q. In addition — though this other error is tolerated by mail clients — spaces need to encoded as =20 or _.

Therefore a correct encoding is:

=?UTF-8?Q?Schon_gewusst=3F=F0=9F=92=A1_Spannende_Insights?=

or

=?UTF-8?Q?Schon=20gewusst=3F=F0=9F=92=A1=20Spannende=20Insights?=

However it isn’t necessary to encode anything but the emoji, since the rest of your Subject line is ASCII. This is far easier to read:

Schon gewusst? =?UTF-8?Q?=F0=9F=92=A1?= Spannende Insights