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Prevent odd characters in emails from Mail to Outlook
There's nothing wrong with having A0's in text. They are just "no-break spaces." The ? results because Outlook reads them using the wrong encoding. It's part of a more general problem where Outlook bugs cause certain kinds of rich text (= html, not .rtf) sent by Mail to display with Chinese or other garbled characters. For details of how this happens and other possible fixes see
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/woutlook.html
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Very detailed explanation, thanks. A stupid question, how does any application opening a pure text file know which text encoding was used. I guess .doc .rtf and other formats have headers, tags and other metadata for that. But a pure text file? I sometimes have the feeling the app can only guess (or do these checks what the first two bytes are).
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There may be programs that can guess at the encoding of plain text by analysing the bytes they contain, but generally there is no way to know what the encoding is. So most apps let you select an encoding in the Open dialogue. An exception to this is plain text which has a Byte Order Mark (BOM) as the very first character. All modern apps will know that this is a form of Unicode and should interpret it correctly.
Prevent odd characters in emails from Mail to Outlook
Exactly. A0 is simply . Don't ever count on Outlook being compatible with anything. This isn't your problem - it's Microsoft's. As always. |
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