On the View menu of your browser, there is an option for character set.  On
the problematic pages, try setting it to UTF-8 and this may fix it.  The
pages they are creating should declare in the <head> section what character
set is being used so your browser doesn't have to guess or guess wrong.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 8:50 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Unwanted characters in emails
> 
> Hello
> 
> Emails I am receiving from a local voluntary organization have
> suddenly started including unwanted characters.  A circumflex, euro
> and o e seem to be replacing things like hyphen.   I have spoken to
> their technical people who are at a loss to know what is causing
> it..  Anyone have any ideas?
> With thanks
> 
> Mike.
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