Re: Strange Characters When Viewing Outlook Express messages

That is just not true. For just one thing, if it were true, then all the
technotes I received from MS in the past going back years would have
exhibited this corruption, but they do not, even when I open and view them
now. If it were as you say, this would have been happening for the last
seven or eight years since I installed WinXP in all my emails.

As I stated, this is a recent phenomenon and *it is not unique to any one
sender*, it only started (as near as I can recall) in the time since I
installed WinXP SP3, or perhaps since one of many auto MS security service
updates or earlier WinXP or IE or OEx updates, which were done quite often,
that took place around that time. This is something specific to Outlook
Express or IE, since I do not encounter it in any other software I am
running, MS or non-MS such as word-processors and otherwise.

I have quite an archive of past emails, going back years and stored right on
this PC, none of which exhibit this strange corruption until recently, so it
is either a sender-caused effect due to some new type of email client
behavior that affects all email clients including Firefox and Mozilla and
others because I have seen it in emails from those clients as well as MS
clients, or something caused by my ISP email server software somehow (which
I admit would not surprise me), or else it is something that was caused by
some change in Windows OEx or IE on my system (which is my mosty likely
suspect).

I also highly suspect it is something on my system, because in the forums
where I have experienced this happening when I receive postings by email, I
have asked other members if they observe the same behavior when they view
forum messages, and nobody else has experienced it to anywhere near the
degree I have encountered. So I really doubt it is something other than my
PC itself.

I am going to try running without any IE addins and see if that does
anything, since it will eliminate all the XML and other addins of recent
times. Maybe that has something to do with it.

--
Pete B

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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[Asked/Answered in OE6 newsgroup]

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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