Re: Strange Characters When Viewing Outlook Express messages

What you're seeing is caused by the Sender's formatting, period. There's
nothing you can do about it except ask your correspondents to always send
emails to you using Plain Text (not RichText; not HTML) formatting.

If they don't, their messages could be in Chinese as far as OE's concerned.

Pete B wrote:
Well, commented upon, not really answered. No solutions presented to
eliminate the problem, only explanations of probable causes. I would
still
like to definitively and specifdically know why this started happening and
how to eliminate it from occurring, because it seldom if ever happened
until
just recently. I appreciated all the answers I did get, but mostly they
could be summed up as "Live with it".


"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Pete B wrote:
Running WinXP Pro SP3. When I open or view most OEx6 messages, I get
some
rather strange font characters in my email messages I receive. For
example,
I receive the MS Technet posts and here is a line of text from the
latest:

"First up, weâ?Tll bring you up to speed on several of the new offerings
around Windows Vista and the upcoming Windows Client. Youâ?Tll be
hearing
more about Windows 7 later this month, especially if youâ?Tre attending
..."


Does anyone know how to get rid of those odd "â?T" text characters? I
tried
changing to different encoding settings for the fonts I use (Arial Black
and
Lucinda Console, Windows Euro encoding), it made some slight differences
but
I still had strange characters here and there. It appears they might be
related to punctuation marks or something. I have not added or changed
any
fonts from what I have always had, so what is going on?

BTW I am not sure but this seemed to start after I installed SP3 for
WinXP.

.

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