PS to below The web is full of discussions about these weird characters. I’ve never seen a comprehensive discussion of this .. there are a wide variety of encoding issues: the discussions I’ve found focus on a few each, but none very comprehensively. So I’ve gotten used to “reading between the lines” when needed.
A few of the discussions are listed below – the first 2 particular to G-Mail: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/X4Df0tTvs7I https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.support.thunderbird/vK33BnPhouc http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-outlook/strange-characterssymbols-in-returned-emails/be19f983-27cc-4d61-99d1-f94a372ef31c http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/turn-formatting-marks-on-or-off-HA010274555.aspx http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-networking/strange-alphabet-characters-show-up-in-sent-and/3594fc53-097a-4add-b923-84db73315156 From: Lee Bruch [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 5:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Â Â Â There are different ways of setting up how a computer and/or email program reads and displays characters. This, and many other strange characters, appear because of an incompatibility between email or computer settings on either your, the original poster’s, or one of the other posters settings. It is particularly a problem that occurs when the various computers are set up to work in various countries and various languages. I correspond w/ people in various languages and from various countries and am on many mail lists from various countries; I’ve have played around with many settings but have never found a setting that works with all (though some settings are better than others). From: Douglas Tighe [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 5:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Â Â Â Can someone please explain the uses of this letter "Â ". which quite often is used. I live in Australia and its not something we use, am I missing out on something. Cheers Doug Tighe 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 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
