Curious characters in Thunderbird on Linux...
Kevin Martin
kevintm at ameritech.net
Thu Jul 31 01:54:46 UTC 2008
Ed Greshko wrote:
> Kevin Martin wrote:
>> I get strange characters in some emails that I receive in Thunderbird
>> on F8. Things like (I hope this comes thru):
>>
>> *Uptown Theatre buyer calls city requirements ‘onerous’*
>> <http://e.ccialerts.com/a/hBIkMy4AFS8nrB7Q2vpAUpPTuv5/ccb37>
>>
>> and
>>
>> Version:Â Â Â [GA
>>
>> Any idea why I would be seeing this? Apparently, when I send the
>> recipient's see strange characters such as these as well. Is it an
>> encoding issue, d'ya think?
>
> Yes, it is character encoding.
>
> If the message is sent using UTF-8 as the encoding and you force it to
> display as ISO-8859-1 you will indeed get what you show above.
>
> Also, if a message is sent using "onerous" (with the punctuation mark
> used in the article) as iso-8859-1 you will see what you show. In
> that case, you can force UTF-8 as the charset and it will display
> properly.
>
So if messages are sent using an encoding that you are not this will
happen? Crud, how do you get around /that/?
Kevin
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