| Symptom | Possible Cause | |---------|----------------| | =?utf-8?B?...?= in logs | MIME encoded-word (normal for email transport) | | Garbled display in admin panel | Database stored as Latin1/CP1252 | | ?? instead of é/ü/α | Client-side decoding failure | | API returns \u00e9 literal | Double JSON encoding |
✅ Change your email client’s display encoding to UTF-8 manually
