Strange Characters in Emails

[Zareba]

Afraid they’ll take advantage

When composing emails and posts, I keep getting strange characters as above.
I think it has to do with encoding, but I can not find a way to change it.

Under Tools, Send, International Settings is set to Western European
(Windows)

Under View, Encoding is set to Western European (Windows)

Can anyone please tell me what I am missing?

Thank you

...Z

[Michael Santovec]

Are you seeing that in NEW e-mails and posts, or just in Replies?

If New ones, that shouldn't happen Unless you are doing a copy/paste of
text from another program.

If a Reply, are you seeing that quoted text from the original message?
That can happen depending on the encoding used by the original
sender/poster.

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Mike - http://TechHelp.Santovec.us

"Zareba" <zar...@thetimewarp.com> wrote in message
news:47C952AD-7700-4EE2...@microsoft.com...
> Afraid they’ll take advantage

[Zareba]

It was a new post made to a news group. When I copied it, it looked fine,
but when it showed up on the group "they’ll" showed up. It does not
seem to happen in mail or posts I receive, just what I send. It was a
copy/paste from a Word doccument! What can I do to stop it?

There has been a ghost in the keyboard for a while now, and I can not find a
fix. In the above example the original word was they'll and the apostrophe
seems to be the problem.

Thank you
...Z

Are you seeing that in NEW e-mails and posts, or just in Replies?

If New ones, that shouldn't happen Unless you are doing a copy/paste of
text from another program.

If a Reply, are you seeing that quoted text from the original message?
That can happen depending on the encoding used by the original
sender/poster.

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Mike - http://TechHelp.Santovec.us

"Zareba" <zar...@thetimewarp.com> wrote in message
news:47C952AD-7700-4EE2...@microsoft.com...

> Afraid they’ll take advantage

[...winston]

Ensure encoding is set to Western European(Windows)
Tools/Options/Read/Fonts/ then set as Default
and
'Use Default encoding for all incoming messages'
Tools/Options/Read/International Settings

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...winston
ms-mvp mail

"Zareba" <zar...@thetimewarp.com> wrote in message news:522379C9-7394-4819...@microsoft.com...

[Zareba]

Thanks, Winston.

I hope this cures the problem. It is one of those niggley little things that
causes irritation.

...Z

[...winston]

I've seen it occasionally, configuring encoding works for most. Though I suspect there are some unique situations where it may not.

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...winston
ms-mvp mail

"Zareba" <zar...@thetimewarp.com> wrote in message news:64EAA389-77FD-4094...@microsoft.com...