Re: Strange Characters When Viewing Outlook Express messages

Strange. I opened the particular message from MS Tech which I quoted in my
original post, and looked at the message source text, where the same garbled
apostrophe characters are showing in the plain text of the source. Also if
I copy and paste the message text into Notepad, it shows the same
corruption.

Maybe it is like you say, just a sender anomaly, but if so, it is not going
to be cured by receiving massages as plain text. I am surprised it would
happen to something like MS Technotes, though; that means MS must have
changed something with whatever they use to produce the emails.


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Pete B

"Pete B" <petescastle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

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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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