# Email node - how to change the encode

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/email-node-how-to-change-the-encode/1372>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [5 July 2018 16:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/email-node-how-to-change-the-encode/1372 "2018-07-05T16:34:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![mrahmadt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@mrahmadt](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/mrahmadt)\
**Post date:** [5 July 2018 16:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/email-node-how-to-change-the-encode/1372/1 "2018-07-05T16:34:10Z")

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Hello Team,

I’m new here so maybe this is a silly question, sorry 🙂

I’m trying to use the email node to check my Gmail account for new email, this is working fine so far but my issue is about the email encode, I got a lot of non-English emails and unfortunately, the text is not correct, any idea how can I change the encoding for an email?

Example in Arabic:  
تعزيز الا شتراك

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**Author:** ![ukmoose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ukmoose/32/13_2.png) [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)\
**Post date:** [5 July 2018 17:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/email-node-how-to-change-the-encode/1372/2 "2018-07-05T17:37:07Z")

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is this an email you are sending or receiving?