We're calling on all EU-based Mozillians with iOS or iPadOS devices to help us monitor Apple’s new browser choice screens. Join the effort to hold Big Tech to account!

Avatar for Username

Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

This thread was archived. Please ask a new question if you need help.

Chinese characters when attaching a gpx file

  • 5 replies
  • 2 have this problem
  • 15 views
  • Last reply by Sospan

Sospan
Sospan
more options

When sending an email with a .gpx file attached I find that my email and not the recipient has a large string of Chinese letters at the bottom. The attachment when received will open in some applications but not others that should open it. Sending the same attachment and others from a hotmail account opens perfectly by the recipient......so the problem is not with the attachment.

I'm Using Thunderbird 31.3.0 and have tried changeing the outgoing mail encodeing from Western(ISO-8859-1) to Western(ISO-8859-1) and Unicode(UTF-8) without any change.

First line of code starting like this....... and then the rows of Chinese symbols.

No problem in attaching JPEG, PNG orPDF attachments.

Any ideas!!

When sending an email with a .gpx file attached I find that my email and not the recipient has a large string of Chinese letters at the bottom. The attachment when received will open in some applications but not others that should open it. Sending the same attachment and others from a hotmail account opens perfectly by the recipient......so the problem is not with the attachment. I'm Using Thunderbird 31.3.0 and have tried changeing the outgoing mail encodeing from Western(ISO-8859-1) to Western(ISO-8859-1) and Unicode(UTF-8) without any change. First line of code starting like this.......<?xml version= "1.0" encoding="utf -16" standalone="no"?> and then the rows of Chinese symbols. No problem in attaching JPEG, PNG orPDF attachments. Any ideas!!

All Replies (5)

Sospan
Sospan Question owner
more options

Sospan said

When sending an email with a .gpx file attached I find that my email and not the recipient has a large string of Chinese letters at the bottom. The attachment when received will open in some applications but not others that should open it. Sending the same attachment and others from a hotmail account opens perfectly by the recipient......so the problem is not with the attachment. I'm Using Thunderbird 31.3.0 and have tried changeing the outgoing mail encodeing from Western(ISO-8859-1) to Western(ISO-8859-1) and Unicode(UTF-8) without any change. First line of code starting like this....... and then the rows of Chinese symbols. No problem in attaching JPEG, PNG orPDF attachments. Any ideas!!
Sospan
Sospan Question owner
more options

First line of coding reads..... Followed by rows of Chinese characters.

Matt
Matt
  • Moderator
  • Top 10 Contributor
more options

what happening if you disable email scanning in your anti virus? They scan Thunderbird mail, but not web mail.

Sospan
Sospan Question owner
more options

Matt said

what happening if you disable email scanning in your anti virus? They scan Thunderbird mail, but not web mail.
Sospan
Sospan Question owner
more options

Disabled email spamfilter in antivirus (Bullguard) with no difference. Chinese characters only appear on bottom of email when only a GPX file is attached. Email recipient does not see these characters. I have a workaround by using Hotmail email but just curious why this happens. Thank you for your reply.