I recently had a message from a mailing list where a surname came through like
this:
Boullé's
I asked about it on the list, and this is the reply I received:
> Monday, April 2, 2012, 7:09:51 PM, you wrote:
> >> Can anyone provide me with info on when the Boullé's came to
> South Africa?
> SH> Boull WHO?
> Must be an artefact of your email viewer. My email client (The Bat)
> using its text only view, transcribes the letters perfectly well, as
> do, as it appears from messages in reply, do most other people's.
> In my email viewer the two odd letters are replaced by an e acute.
In the reply, the name in the haeader, and in the body of the message, was
quite readable.
I have had a number of other messages with strange cvharacters in them --
capital A with two dots over it, Euro signs, trademark signs and the like.
People blame my reader, Pegasus, for them, but I find that when the guy who
replied top me above quoted the original, it came through fine.
What is causing this, and is there anything I can do about it?
Thanks
Robert
I recently had a message from a mailing list where a surname came through like
this:
<p>Boullé's
&nbsp; </p><p>I asked about it on the list, and this is the reply I received:
</p><div id="qhide_67817" style="display:block;" class="qt">&gt; Monday, April 2, 2012, 7:09:51 PM, you wrote:
<p>&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp;&gt;&gt; Can anyone provide me with info on when the Boullé's came to
&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp;South Africa?
</p><p>&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp;SH&gt; Boull WHO?
</p><p>&gt; Must be an artefact of your email viewer. My email client (The Bat)
&gt; using its text only view, transcribes the letters perfectly well, as
&gt; do, as it appears from messages in reply, do most other people's.
</p><p>&gt; In my email viewer the two odd letters are replaced by an e acute.
</p></div>In the reply, the name in the haeader, and in the body of the message, was
quite readable.
<p>I have had a number of other messages with strange cvharacters in them --
capital A with two dots over it, Euro signs, trademark signs and the like.
</p><p>People blame my reader, Pegasus, for them, but I find that when the guy who
replied top me above quoted the original, it came through fine.
</p><p>What is causing this, and is there anything I can do about it?
</p><p>Thanks</p><p>Robert
</p>