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Resolved Weird characters in e-mail

Discussion in 'Firefox, Thunderbird & SeaMonkey' started by jpChris, 2012/03/05.

  1. 2012/03/05
    jpChris

    jpChris Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi all,

    I don't know if this is a SeaMonkey "problem" or what.

    Sometimes when someone replies to an e-mail I've sent or in some e-mails I receive, instead of punctuation marks, or if I use ASCII characters, I'll get a small box with: ff on top and pp below it. When I copy and paste the small box into any Write programs (Word, Notepad, Wordpad, etc.) I'll either get a box or a ?.

    Or, is this a Windows\MAC thing?
     
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    MrBill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    Not sure on your question, haven't got an answer, but you system specs show SP 2 and you should update Windows to SP 3 for safety reasons.
     
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  4. 2012/03/06
    TonyT

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    This can occur when the other's mail program is using different character encoding than yours.

    For example, I see this problem in my Thunderbird sometimes when I receive message from prople composing in 2007 and later versions of Outlook. This is because those versions of Outlook use MS Word as the composition editor, earlier versions used the IE engine. And some Word characters do not conform with HTML standards.

    View the message in preview, then click on View Menu > Character encoding. It's probably set to Western ISO-8859-1. Try setting to "Automatic" and see if that handles it.

    Myself, I just live with the issue and keep it set to Western ISO-8859-1.
     
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  5. 2012/03/09
    jpChris

    jpChris Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi Tony,

    I'm glad I'm not the only one this happens to.
    I guess I'll do the same.

    However, if you follow this link:
    WindowsBBS you'll see the characters I'm talking about.

    Thanks, Tony.
     
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  6. 2012/03/10
    TonyT

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    I think I found the solution. I did this to my Thunderbird and auto-detection of the character encoding now functions properly. Not sure if Seamonkey has the same settings, but here it is:

    Go to Tools > Options > Advanced > Config Editor and make sure that mailnews.force_charset_override is set to false

    Right click Inbox >Properties > make sure that the check-box "Apply default to all messages in the folder" is NOT checked.
     
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  7. 2012/03/10
    jpChris

    jpChris Inactive Thread Starter

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    Hi Tony,

    I can't find it in any of the "Prefs" settings nor in about:config. Is there such a thing in SeaMonkey?

    Also, the character encoding isn't in always in my mail. As the link I gave showed, it happens here, too.
     
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  8. 2012/03/11
    TonyT

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    I didn't see anything weird in the link you posted. Are you saying that you get these characters in the browser as well? If so, all I can suggest is to move to more modern software such as FF & TB.
     
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