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Why are my forwarded emails redacted?

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When I forward an email it contains all kinds of symbols(see screen shot attached)

When I forward an email it contains all kinds of symbols(see screen shot attached)

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This is an issue with Text Encoding.

Sadly some US ISP's like AT&T and Bellsouth have started *corrupting* their customers' e-mail.

If person sends in windows-1252 and includes for example special punctuation characters or a non-break space xA0, the ISP doesn't correctly interpret the the message as windows-1252 but as UTF-8. In UTF-8, xA0 is not valid and gets replaced by the so-called replacement character, � (0xEF 0xBF 0xBD). If the e-mail is windows-1252 encoded, the recipient's client displays �. This is exactly what you are seeing.

Try this:

  • Menu Icon > Options > Display > 'Formatting' tab
  • click on 'Advanced ' button
  • Set Unicode (UTF-8) on both 'Outgoing' and 'Incoming'
  • Check box "When possible, use the default text encoding in replies"
  • click on all 'OK's
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Please try to 'Add Image' again as it did not upload first time. Make sure the file is an image file eg: jpg

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Can anyone help me on this?

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Chosen Solution

This is an issue with Text Encoding.

Sadly some US ISP's like AT&T and Bellsouth have started *corrupting* their customers' e-mail.

If person sends in windows-1252 and includes for example special punctuation characters or a non-break space xA0, the ISP doesn't correctly interpret the the message as windows-1252 but as UTF-8. In UTF-8, xA0 is not valid and gets replaced by the so-called replacement character, � (0xEF 0xBF 0xBD). If the e-mail is windows-1252 encoded, the recipient's client displays �. This is exactly what you are seeing.

Try this:

  • Menu Icon > Options > Display > 'Formatting' tab
  • click on 'Advanced ' button
  • Set Unicode (UTF-8) on both 'Outgoing' and 'Incoming'
  • Check box "When possible, use the default text encoding in replies"
  • click on all 'OK's
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Thanks, I'll give it a try.

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Thank You, problem solved.