Why do some of the words in my Emails look like this?

Question

Why do some of the words in my Emails look like this?

Answer 1

Usually it's spam which is coming from someone who is using a different language default.

Answer 2

Could just be a font mismatch. If one font was a unicode font and the other was an old truetype font, that could cause it.



Old fonts only had 256 possible characters in them. Unicode has many many more, I forget the limit.



If you friend typed an email using a font that is unicode and you don't have that font and your computer maps it to a non unicode font, you can sometimes get these strange results.

Answer 3

This is usually means that your Internet Browser client is not displaying Unicode properly.



On your browser menu you will find the view menu. Click on Character Encoding and make sure that you have Unicode (UTF-8) Selected. That should fix your problem.

Answer 4

it depends on what font you are using, what you are using it on [eg inserted, just regularly typed in, pre inserted] adn the incryption on the page. your computer system too. if you are not using windows , have an old computer etc that may be your roblem

Answer 5

This could be because your email client does not fully support MIME type HTML emails. Try asking people to send you text emails, or change the "encoding" of ur message.

If you need help, select my answer as best and comment. I will try to get back 2 you.

Answer 6

Chances are these are spam or some other sort of unsolicited mail coming from over seas where the translation techniques aren't that good.

I don't think you'd ever see your name like this from a friends email.

Answer 7

I've gotten those- some are apostrophes. They were in word documents sent as attachments.



I just tried something. I typed into Microsoft word and emailed it as an attachment to three of my email accounts. In Yahoo mail, they were in the Preview. I downloaded it and still there, so I pasted the text into a new Word document, changed the font to AGaramond, and it came out right. I tried other fonts, and they were okay. Try and see if that helps.



In the other two, they weren't there after I downloaded them. I have no idea what caused it. I do know that there's a flaw in Microsoft Word programs, which might have been patched by now. Probably not, though. I just heard about it Saturday on Kim Komando's show.



I still use Word 97... it "ain't broke", so I didn't fix it. : )