I've always been puzzled by the strange characters too. I *almost* never get them on personal emails and I exchange emails a lot within the US and to/from Canada, UK, Germany - even umlauts translate correctly. My email is set up to both send and receive in Unicode UTF-8 using Outlook 2007 using HTML. However... I subscribe to a number of list-servs ... I don't have that problem with most, but I do have that pop up with some of the listservs, especially this and a couple of listservs from Germany. I've never figured it out and just resigned to accept it. I've passively wondered whether it has something to do with email settings from emails originating in different countries, or if something to do w/ translating back and forth to/from plain text, or some strange interaction between the apple and PC worlds, or some other of many potential reasons. But I just accept it.
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Gray [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 3:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Email with Symbols I checked out the encoding on Pat Hickin's original post, and it was indeed UTF-8. It appeared fine (no weird characters) in Outlook 2007, so I guess my reader handles UTF-8. Despite that, like Ron, I still get the weird characters. For me, it appears that it is in the original text quoted in replies where the person replying had a newsreader that mangled the character set. I.E. once mangled, that text will continue to be mangled on all future replies to the group quoting it. Paul Gray <snip> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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
