Odd symbols

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Lila Freilicher

People receiving my email have started getting odd symbols such as a raised
2 instead of quote marks and EUR instead of bullets (option 8). Can you help
me please?
 
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Ramón G Castañeda

People receiving my email have started getting odd symbols such as a raised
2 instead of quote marks and EUR instead of bullets (option 8). Can you help
me please?
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There's most likely nothing wrong on your end --and possibly nothing wrong
on the recipients' either.

Some mail servers --notoriously the AOL ones but also a whole bunch of
other ones-- mangle many characters above ASCII 127, such as bullets,
typographer's quotes (as opposed to straight typewriter quotes), letters
with diacritics (accented vowels, dieresis, tildes, etc.).

The solution is to use an asterisk instead of a bullet, straight quotation
marks, etc.
 
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Ramón G Castañeda

People receiving my email have started getting odd symbols such as a raised
2 instead of quote marks and EUR instead of bullets (option 8). Can you help
me please?
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Lila,

Also see Paul Berkowitz's excellent reply in the thread titled "Re: Please
answer: recipients getting weird characters":

He focuses on HTML messages for very valid reasons. But I've NEVER sent a
single HTML message in my entire life (and I have used computers in the
course of my works since the early 1960s), yet I have seen the same
phenomenon happen to pure-text messages I've sent out in Spanish, German,
French and, to a much lesser extent, Dutch. So it's DEFINITELY not just an
HTML thing.
 
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