Yahoo Mail changes characters in emails.

TechnoCorruption · 11 Apr 2006 at 09:23

This is a bit of a wierd one, when I send a mail with a £ sign in it, it displays the message correctly and sends it, yet when I check my sent box and find messages which have been sent I find that there are changed or extra characters.

Its a bit like when you are trying to access teletext on a portable TV and the signal is not strong enough which leads to missing letters or different ones to what they should be.

This is a paragraph from a recent email I sent, notice the wierd A character before the £ sign.

"I am going to have to hold out for Â£25 on the price as postage will be a fiver which would then leave me Â£20 for the card,"

Anyone got any ideas?

PinkPig · 11 Apr 2006 at 09:27

Which browser are you using to view the emails? Looks like a character encoding issue, have you tried trying to change it (under the view menu normally) - I remember having this sort of problem quite a bit from time to time in Firefox.

(e.g. here is this page after changing the setting: http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/3946/pic1db.jpg)

TechnoCorruption · 11 Apr 2006 at 09:36

Yeah it is Firefox im using, I'll have a look at the settings now, thanks mate.

MR_Punk · 11 Apr 2006 at 10:15

I think it used to do that for me when i used ff, no probs with Opera though!

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