Outlook 2000; £ sign ok on screen but recipient sees ?

Any ideas about the cause of this? Is it an Outlook problem actually?

 

If you are putting in the £ from the keyboard and the person on the receiving end is using a different language setup, they could well see a different symbol.

For instance, my keyboard is US English and doesn't have a key for £ at all. And I might see my keyboard equiv. if you typed the pound symbol in and sent it to me.

Try using the left hand ALT key and numbers from your number pad (rather than from the top row). Hold down the ALT key and put in 0163 which will put the £ thing in for you and it should look the same on pretty much any system I think.

 

You're kidding of course.

How would the sender know which reciipent had that problem? Only one in several thousand.

Life's too short.

Thanks anyway.

 

The problem with sending e-mail over the internet is that many ISPs and mail servers strip any special formatting and take the message down to plain text. It is possible that some e-mail servers don't know how to interpret £ into plain text. The problem may be resolved if you send your e-mail is Plain Text instead of HTML or Rich-Text formats. This is not an Outlook problem, but rather an e-mail formatting problem. When in doubt always send in Plain Text.

Essentially, the problem is not unlike if you have a special font installed on your computer and send a message to someone who does not have that font, a substitute will be used on the destination computer.