On 10/27/2012 6:44 PM, Jan Roberts wrote: > It seems to happen to my own messages when I convert them to plain text for > sending to the list. So I presumed that is what was doing it to other > people's messages that come through with the strange symbols. > > Cheers > Jan > -----Original Message----- > From: Ronald Bernier [mailto:ronaldbern...@bernfrin.org] > Sent: Sunday, 28 October 2012 09:11 > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Email with Symbols > > My mail reader is definitely not web based but I get emails with these weird > symbols also. I assure you my mail reader is not "stuck in the past", so > that doesn't seem to be the definitive answer. > > Ron Bernier > Sent from my iPad >
Your email client (I use Thunderbird) should have an option for character encoding. Mine is set to: Outgoing Mail: Western (ISO-8859-1) Incoming Mail: Unicode (UTF-8) This correctly translates and displays the characters correctly. Western (ISO-8859-1) appears to be understood correctly by all mail readers and the Unicode (UTF-8) appears to understand both, so far. -- Gene Young Researching Young, Harer, Cox & Sallada With Legacy Family Tree http://myyoungs.atspace.com/index.htm Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
