I subscribe to many lists such as this, but this is the ONLY list where this problem occurs. NONE of the other emails I receive from anywhere in the world have this problem. This occurs only with this Legacy list. As mentioned many times before, there are many problems with the company that Legacy deems worthy to host its list. This is merely another one. CE> From: lbr...@nwlink.com > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Email with Symbols > Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:28:16 -0700 > > 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:grayp...@telus.net] > Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2012 3:58 PM > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > 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
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