How do I get rid of the diamond with the question marks in i
- Montana Bob
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How do I get rid of the diamond with the question marks in i
For some reason many incoming eMail message display a few, or sometimes, many of the following symbols.
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I am assuming that TB has a formatting setting that I am missing. Anyway, how do I prevent them from appearing?
Not a biggie, but annoying just the same as, should I be replying or forwarding the message, I have to remove all of the symbols. Yeah, I am anal about message formatting.
Thanks!
Harvey
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I am assuming that TB has a formatting setting that I am missing. Anyway, how do I prevent them from appearing?
Not a biggie, but annoying just the same as, should I be replying or forwarding the message, I have to remove all of the symbols. Yeah, I am anal about message formatting.
Thanks!
Harvey
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Re: How do I get rid of the diamond with the question marks
Try setting the encoding to unicode in view -> text encoding.
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Re: How do I get rid of the diamond with the question marks
Thanks Tanstaafl!
Setting is already in "Unicode".
Punt!
Harvey
Setting is already in "Unicode".
Punt!
Harvey
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Re: How do I get rid of the diamond with the question marks
Select the message and use view -> message source or control->U and look at the raw message source. Search for the Content-Type: header nearest the Subject. What is it set to ?
Some examples:
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="_004_CY4PR17MB0933B381947D7CAB7A37BF01D5EB0CY4PR17MB0933namp_"
Some examples:
Content-Type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="_004_CY4PR17MB0933B381947D7CAB7A37BF01D5EB0CY4PR17MB0933namp_"
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Re: How do I get rid of the diamond with the question marks
Here's what I found:
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------BA7DED506BF1C1EABE16B752
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
--------------BA7DED506BF1C1EABE16B752
Content-Type: multipart/related;
boundary="------------BE008758493A39E5F8E1537B"
--------------BE008758493A39E5F8E1537B
Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Harvey
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--------------BA7DED506BF1C1EABE16B752
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
--------------BA7DED506BF1C1EABE16B752
Content-Type: multipart/related;
boundary="------------BE008758493A39E5F8E1537B"
--------------BE008758493A39E5F8E1537B
Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Harvey
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Re: How do I get rid of the diamond with the question marks
Your message is made up of multiple pieces that use character set Windows-1252 . See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252
Try selecting Western instead of Unicode. Western is probably ISO-8859-1 (Western Europe) , which is pretty close to Windows-1252 if you are using Windows as your operating system. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1
Try selecting Western instead of Unicode. Western is probably ISO-8859-1 (Western Europe) , which is pretty close to Windows-1252 if you are using Windows as your operating system. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1
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Re: How do I get rid of the diamond with the question marks
Bingo!
Switched to "Western" and the little buggers disappeared!
Thanks Tanstaafl!
Harvey
Switched to "Western" and the little buggers disappeared!
Thanks Tanstaafl!
Harvey
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Re: How do I get rid of the diamond with the question marks
Darn! Switched to "Western" which eliminated the �������� but now I am getting this "Â", (without the quotes). They seem to appear after periods and paragraph marks.
he resumed reading.Â
 Â
Trying to find a topic
Hopefully, you have an answer for this issue too.
Thanks again!
Harvey
he resumed reading.Â
 Â
Trying to find a topic
Hopefully, you have an answer for this issue too.
Thanks again!
Harvey
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Re: How do I get rid of the diamond with the question marks
Forgot that I am also seeing extraneous symbols which appear to be in place of apostrophes. Here's an example appearing in the word "doesn't".
like he doesn’t realize that people
Thanks again.
Harvey
like he doesn’t realize that people
Thanks again.
Harvey
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Re: How do I get rid of the diamond with the question marks
n’ is typical of text copied from a document in MS Office and pasted into a website without first cleaning up its proprietary Microsoft formatting code. This non-standard coding will generally only be correctly interpreted by other MS applications.like he doesn’t realize that people
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Win10 64bit: FF 124.0.2 64bit, TB 102.12.0 32-bit ║ Android 13/10: FF 124.2.0/115.9.0 ║ No TB for Android available, dammit!
What a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away - Doobie Brothers