Re: OE6 inserts foreign characters into HTML Sig file. WHY?!?

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What version of Windows are you using?

Open the file in Notepad. Then select File, Save As. Make sure that
the Encoding is set to ANSI. If it saves as Unicode or UTF-8, that
could cause your problem.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Fernando de Bruyn" <FernandodeBruyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:A62CD0D8-3A17-432E-A437-896DC516D699@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Michael, I used notepad to create the html file. The file was then
saved as html. If I open the file with notepad... the only content
inside is

<HTML>
<BODY>Fernando de Bruyn</BODY>
</HTML>

The file does not contain any other text. It still gives met exactly
the
same problem. When trying to send a mail with my new signature
file, OE adds weird characters to the beginning of the mail

 Fernando de Bruyn

Why?!?


Do you know what the problem could be?
Thanks in advance


"Michael Santovec" wrote:

I'll repeat some of what I said in the previous post.

What program did you use to create the sig1.html file? If you used
Word, that could well be the cause of your problem. Use Notepad. If
you didn't use Notepad, open the sig1.html file in Notepad and see if
the foreign characters are there.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Fernando de Bruyn" <FernandodeBruyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in
message news:93F3077E-6799-43BD-A732-3BC24679B84A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Okay, sorry, I thought you could see the whole thread. Let me
explain
my problem from the beginning. I want to add a html signature to
my
Outlook Express 6.0 mail. I create a HTML document sig1.html with
the
following content:

<HTML>
<BODY>Fernando de Bruyn</BODY>
</HTML>

As you can see, it is a very simple html document, nothing fancy,
no
font,
etc. I made it this simple on purpose to see if it would work.
Anyway,
I go through the normal procedure of adding a signture, select the
HTML
document, accept, etc. Now, I try to send a new mail, and it adds
my
newly created signature, BUT, it also adds a couple of weird
characters
to the beginning of the mail. It looks like this:

 Fernando de Bruyn

The source of the newly created email looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16441" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV> Fernando de Bruyn </DIV></BODY></HTML>

I have no idea why Outlook Express is adding the  to the
beggining
of
my signature, and I want it out. Can anybody please help me?

Thanks in advance,
Fernando


"Michael Santovec" wrote:

I don't know whose problem you are referring to. So we'll just
start
from the beginning.

Do NOT use Word to create a signature. Use Notepad. Word adds
all
sorts of garbage. Open your saved signature in Notepad to see
what
it
looks like.

Even your example has more than it should. Your signature is not
a
stand-alone document. It will be inserted into one. So the
<HTML>
and
<BODY> tags don't apply.

In fact, your signature could be as little as

Fernando de Bruyn

If you like, you can add font tags to change the size, color,
font,
etc., such as

<FONT face=Billboard color=#ff0000 size=5>Fernando de
Bruyn</FONT></DIV>

Also, In OE5+ you should use "Western European (ISO)" for
Encoding.
Places to check this:
- Tools, Options, Send, International
- Tools, Options, Read, Font
- Tools, Options, Read, International
- When composing a message, look in Format, Encoding

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Fernando de Bruyn" <Fernando de Bruyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote
in message
news:7B46CEA7-E2B3-4905-8C08-83D498E7D5B8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Can somebody please help me before I break my keyboard. This
signature problem
is driving me crazy. I have exactly the same problem as Mike,
and
I
have
tried
everything written in this thread, nothing helps. I changed my
signature to
as
simple as possible, saved it as a htm file, and still exactly
the
same
problem of
that weird foreign characters in the beginning of the mail. It
adds
the
following
characters to the mail.

<DIV>

Why the hell does it do that? I tried basically everything I
can
think of,
read up
as much as possible, it just looks like a bug to me. This is
how
my
html
document
looks like:

<HTML>
<BODY>
Fernando de Bruyn
</BODY>
</HTML>

Any help would be greatly appriciated. Thanks in advance
Fernando de Bruyn








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