Special characters e:g: apostrophe scambled

[Alexander]

My apostrophes a displaying as a string of 2-3 special characters including
the "TM" symbols.

I understand this to be a problem of mismatched encoding.

How do I fix it?

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[John H Meyers]

On 1/20/2012 3:46 PM, Alexander wrote:

> Apostrophes are displaying as a string of 2-3 special characters including

> the "TM" symbols.
>
> I understand this to be a problem of mismatched encoding.

Ascii single ['] or double ["] quotes are sent as these plain 1-byte characters,
and are always properly displayed.

"Curly quotes," on the other hand, which come in "left" vs. "right" flavors,
are often sent by other people as multi-byte strings in UTF-8 encoding,
which _Eudora has never handled_ - thus such strings remain displayed as several bytes,
not resembling what they represent, even though it's obvious what they mean.

Some improvement might be seen after installing a third-party plugin
(to get the most value from it, please thoroughly study its included instructions):

http://www.windharp.de/software/utf8iso.htm

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[Alexander]

Thanks, John. I'll check it out.

"John H Meyers" <jhme...@nomail.invalid> wrote in message
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[Todd]

Thanks, John. Much appreciated.

Todd

[Todd]

On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:01:09 -0600, John H Meyers
<jhme...@nomail.invalid> wrote:

Thanks again, John. I just installed this plugin and it works great.
I haven't converted a new message yet, but it converted an old one
just fine in French.

Todd