charaters in email being converted to question marks

C

crazigee

Hi,

In some of the emails I am receiving some of the characters are being
converted to question marks? Apostrophes are an example. So it would read I
wasn?t planning on going to the park...

I got a reply to email I sent out earlier today and although the reply
doesn't have this problem the copy of my email included at the bottom does.

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to correct it?
 
P

Pat Willener

I don't have an answer for your question, but I have seen this before -
especially in messages that come from Mac systems.

How are these messages encoded?
 
J

jdgarvin

I'm trying to figure out just that problem right now. The situation is
exactly Mac --> Windows. Mac to Mac isn't a problem and while I haven't
had a Mac to Windows problem yet, a client of mine has a group of
people she deals with who consistently have the problem from her Mac
PowerBook. All are Windows users. I have checked all the settings in
her email client (Apple's Mail) and it appears everything should work
correctly. Encoding is set to 'Automatic' with choices of Western (ISO
Latin 1), Western (Windows Latin 1), Western (Mac OS Roman) and Western
(Mac Mail) available. What I'm trying to find out is how all this is
*supposed* to work and if poorly updated systems (Mac or Windows) may
be at fault.
 

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