STRANGE SYMBOLS IN MY EMAIL MESSAGES

[Witznd]

Hello group,
I am not sure how to describe my problem. However, I think it has
something to do with the fact that I have a lot of foreign exchange
students using my computer. The do not change the language on my
computer, however, for some reason my emails--upon a reply or a forward
come back to me with strange symbols in certain places. Like quotes
turn into question marks on the reply, and my tag line which say's,
It's not what you know... It's who you know... looks like this when I
send it to myself--
~It’s not what you know...It’s WHO you know!

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? The other day I had an
email reply come back to me that my text was so full of symbols I could
hardly read it.

I use yahoo mail and entourage mail... They both do it.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Chris Ridd]

Hello group,
I am not sure how to describe my problem. However, I think it has
something to do with the fact that I have a lot of foreign exchange
students using my computer. The do not change the language on my
computer, however, for some reason my emails--upon a reply or a forward
come back to me with strange symbols in certain places. Like quotes
turn into question marks on the reply, and my tag line which say's,
It's not what you know... It's who you know... looks like this when I
send it to myself--
~It’s not what you know...It’s WHO you know!

It sounds like the mail's being sent using a character set, and maybe
your mail server is mangling things somehow so that you can't read the
returned mail.

But the problem is more likely to be the wrong character set's being used.

When composing your mail, choose Format > Character Set and choose one.
"Automatic" is usually OK, but "Western European (ISO)" is very
compatible, and "Unicode (UTF-8)" is pretty compatible. (Windows mail
programs can understand much more than the character sets with
"(Windows)" at the end; don't get confused by these!)

One of the email headers says what character set's being used in that
email. If that header's missing Entourage uses the default character
set you specify in Preferences > Mail & News Preferences. I have
"Western European (ISO)" set there, and it works fine.

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this? The other day I had an
email reply come back to me that my text was so full of symbols I could
hardly read it.

I use yahoo mail and entourage mail... They both do it.

I don't know what Yahoo mail is, or what it might be doing.

Cheers,

Chris

 

[Witznd]

It sounds like the mail's being sent using a character set, and maybe
your mail server is mangling things somehow so that you can't read the
returned mail.

But the problem is more likely to be the wrong character set's being used.

When composing your mail, choose Format > Character Set and choose one.
"Automatic" is usually OK, but "Western European (ISO)" is very
compatible, and "Unicode (UTF-8)" is pretty compatible. (Windows mail
programs can understand much more than the character sets with
"(Windows)" at the end; don't get confused by these!)

One of the email headers says what character set's being used in that
email. If that header's missing Entourage uses the default character
set you specify in Preferences > Mail & News Preferences. I have
"Western European (ISO)" set there, and it works fine.


I don't know what Yahoo mail is, or what it might be doing.

Cheers,

Chris

Chris! You are on to something...I remember last year some time I got
this alert when sending an email. Said something like - "your message
is being sent in Unicode (UTF-8)" some clients may not be able to
read it....." or something like that. And the funny thing is, when I
copied in what my sign. tag says (not what you know...who you know...),
to this post, the little squiggley symbol that is just to the left of
the number one, came out fine in the actual post. But it was a bunch
of weirdness when I pasted it. The squiggley came out fine in the
post.

I just figured it was because I deal with so many foreign exchange
students that THEY messed something up Always blame it on the
kids

Thanks so much and I will check to see what my settings are.

Cheers right back at ya!
Daniella