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Why does this symbol †or â show up in my email messages almost always?

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roneross
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Why does this symbol †or â show up in my email messages almost always? I know it is a coding problem. I think it is a problem with Firefox. There use to be a button to change from unicode to western of back but now it does not work. I do not know how to code is there a fix. I think Firefox needs fix. Running Win7 and Firefox 91.0.1 64 Bit.

Why does this symbol †or â show up in my email messages almost always? I know it is a coding problem. I think it is a problem with Firefox. There use to be a button to change from unicode to western of back but now it does not work. I do not know how to code is there a fix. I think Firefox needs fix. Running Win7 and Firefox 91.0.1 64 Bit.

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gnittala
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Hello, can you please share the URL of the website where you are seeing this. It will help narrow down the issue - whether it is a problem with the website or Firefox.

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roneross
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It is my email that I get it a lot. I use Juno.com.

gnittala
gnittala
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Thank you for that detail. I mistook that you were using Firefox. Is it possible for you to check the character encoding on Thunderbird to validate that it is indeed set accurately. A similar issue was reported earlier and you can check the steps here.

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cor-el
cor-el
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Note that you get this when the text is Unicode, but the servers sends it as an eight bit Windows encoding (i.e. you see the combining Unicode characters). See also: