Re: strange characters in web emails -- PCTECH

Subject: Re: strange characters in web emails
From: "Lukas Beeler" <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 21:18:08 +0200
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Jim Franz <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Are there settings in IE 7 that cause strange chaacters like Â
to appear in web emails (html)?

Simple encoding problem. Either the sender or the manufacturer of the
web mail client - most likely the latter - fucked up.

You can force IE to use specific encodings (that differ from what it
was told by the website), but that's rather cumbersome.

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