Specify a Target Character Set

File Content Extraction provides a way to specify the target character set when extracting subfiles. This is only used to set the character set when extracting the body of a mail message. OpenText recommends using UTF-8 or UTF-16 because these are widely supported and can encode a diverse range of characters.

To specify a target character set

  • This feature is not available through the .NET API. All text output is UTF-8 encoded.