It also happens with emails sent from the newest version of MS Entourage 2004 for Mac. Does that count as a different email client?
Is there a setting I can make in PowerMail that will deal with this well? Other email programs seem to deal with it ok. D Nathanson in reply to ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Alan Harper's message of 10:26 AM, 2/7/07 >I think that this is an Outlook Express Bug. If I remember correctly, >Outlook Express says that it is using one character encoding and >actually uses a different one. Look at the headers to see if all are >from the same mail client, then do a google search. But I think the >answer is, if you are going to lynch someone, perhaps you should find a >microsoft engineer. > >A > >On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:14:38 -0800 Dave N said: > >>Hi, >> I get a lot of emails that include numbers instead of punctuation. Like >>this: >> >>>I1ve got an office of users ready for a lynching - mine as a result of >>>issues they are experiencing with Word. I1ve done a fair amount of research >> >>I can see that where I would expect single quote ', I see a 1. Sometimes >>it is a 2, or 3 for similar punctuation marks, like double quotes. >>Usually these senders are using a MS mail program, and I think they are >>using curly quotes. >> >>What can a PowerMail user do so their emails will look correct when >received? >> >>I'm in USA, and my PowerMail prefs are set to: >>Languge family: US/Western Europe >>Use Character set: ISO-8859-1 (Latin1, Western Europe) >> >>TIA, >> DaveN >>
