Changing Apple Mail default encoding to unicode

Is it possible to change the mail default encoding to Unicode (UTF-8)?
thanks

BlueBird1958 wrote:
after sending my mails, they become unreadable symbols.
What does that mean?  Are the recipients unable to read them?  Or are you talking about how they look on your machine, for example in the Sent folder of Mail app?
Normally Hebrew would always be sent in Unicode.
But it certainly cannot hurt anything to test adding a unicode dingbat to a test message and see whether it makes a difference for your problem.

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