Why do I get � in body of a received email?
This only occurs, so far, from one contact multiple times. I can see the email via Outlook online. When I go to View then Text Encoding and click on Unicode (which already selected) the message appears. When I then go to another email and back the � reappears. Also, when I click on Unicode to make the message appear, $)C , precedes the message. Example: $)CHello Peter,
Thanks
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Your correspondent is probably using one of the old email program which are no longer supported, like Eudora. Character encoding is a huge problem with those applications are the do not send/understand unicode correctly.
These emails are coming from a top financial consultant firm. Also, this problem does not occur thru any another email client such as outlook or any web client only Thunderbird and I have the latest version.
My experience of this �
Even my bank has problems when they use an automated reminder - mail.
The header is preset to a specified pagecode and it works BUT the body isn't pagecoded so it uses my default, and those � appear.
Apparently other mail-clients keep the set codepage thru the entire mail.
I also think its harder for big companies to change what once worked well.
The bigger the firm, the less likely they are to have kept up with technological change. Also the more likely they are to fail to test on anything but their preferred platform. be it IBM, Apple, Microsoft etc.