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When downloading text, quotation marks, commas & apostrophes are rendered as gibberish. How can I cure this?

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AnonymousUser
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I use IBM Lotus Symphony as my default word processor. When I download materials as .txt, all apostrophes, quotation marks and hyphens are shown as gibberish> How do I get them to download and display normally?

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== Some time ago

I use IBM Lotus Symphony as my default word processor. When I download materials as .txt, all apostrophes, quotation marks and hyphens are shown as gibberish> How do I get them to download and display normally? == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == Some time ago

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Svetlana
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I want to ask for more information. Do these files look ok in Firefox/Lotus/and another word processor? Where do you download them from and to? If you have a problem with display of fonts in Firefox, you can try to change font setting in Tools menu, Options window, Content panel, fonts section.

cor-el
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Make sure that you select the correct text encoding (mime type) in Lotus. The files are probably saved as Unicode, but you can check that in Tools > Page Info > General or View > Character Encoding before saving the page.