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user1769868
user1769868

Reputation: 133

What character encoding am I seeing in my emails?

I'm getting emails occasionally that are having strange encoding issues. The quotation marks show up as ³example², and apostrophes show up as that¹s. I can't imagine that the other person actually meant to use those symbols, even though the email headers specify an encoding of Windows-1252. I'm using Thunderbird for Mac OSX, and I'm not sure what email client is being used to send these messages.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 118

Answers (1)

mike.k
mike.k

Reputation: 3457

These are the characters ` and angled double-quotes. In my experience, these are typically from OSX because it uses a specialized version of ISO-8859, that's what I recall reading when researching this issue a few months ago, if I find the reference I will add the link.

If the sender specifies UTF-8, this goes away.

Upvotes: 1

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