title: English Email Displays Chinese-like Characters
body: <p>I'm using <a href="https://github.com/andrewdavey/postal" rel="nofollow">Postal</a> to send emails with an HTML and Text portion.</p>
  
  <p>When the email is sent to Gmail, it is displayed correctly.  However, when it is displayed in at least two other email systems (Mail Enable's webmail interface, and an unknown system at a client), the text is rendered as something similar to Chinese.  When the client forwards the email back to a Gmail account, the "Chinese" rendering is also visible.</p>
  
  <p>Example email generated:</p>
  
  <pre><code>X-Sender: no-reply@thecompany.com
  X-Receiver: therecipient@thecompany.com
  MIME-Version: 1.0
  From: no-reply@thecompany.com
  To: therecipient@thecompany.com
  Date: 17 Apr 2013 22:11:25 -0700
  Subject: Some Subject
  Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
   boundary=--boundary_0_83808b99-ef32-4f47-8835-ba4a435a2141
  
  
  ----boundary_0_83808b99-ef32-4f47-8835-ba4a435a2141
  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-16
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
  
  MIME ENCODED CONTENTS HERE==
  ----boundary_0_83808b99-ef32-4f47-8835-ba4a435a2141
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-16
  Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
  
  MIME ENCODED CONTENTS HERE=
  ----boundary_0_83808b99-ef32-4f47-8835-ba4a435a2141--
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Clearly there is an encoding issue that Gmail somehow sorts out but other email servers do not, but what exactly is the issue?</p>
  
  <p>The <code>charset</code> is specified as <code>utf-16</code>.  Is does Postal (or the MVC engine) in fact generate <code>utf-8</code> output?  How can I control the encoding of the output and/or the <code>charset</code> specified in the email header?</p>