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Unusual type characters appear in e-mails

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Spofforth
Spofforth
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Incoming e-mails have these type of characters ’; can anyone tell me how to fix it?

Incoming e-mails have these type of characters ’; can anyone tell me how to fix it?

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Toad-Hall
Toad-Hall
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'Menu icon' > 'Options' > 'Options' > Display' > 'Formatting' tab click on 'Advanced'

What Text Encoding are you using for 'incoming mail' ? Try 'Unicode UTF-8'

If you have an Anti-Virus scanning incoming mail, switch it off to see if this improves the situation with new incoming mail.