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I save emails to my documents and whenever I try to open them later they do not open properly. they just display meaningless text.

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bobander
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I use windows xp and firefox version 7.0.1

I use windows xp and firefox version 7.0.1

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Swarnava Sengupta
Swarnava Sengupta
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upgrade your browser to Firefox 8 and try

cor-el
cor-el
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What kind of files are you saving?

Are that web pages with a .html file extension or files with an .eml file extension?

The latter need to be opened with an email program.

If it are HTML files then check the (default) encoding.

  • Firefox > Web Developer > Character Encoding
  • View > Character Encoding
bobander
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Thanks for the suggestion. I save as .html. I opened web developer but have no character encoding option, options that appear are web console, inspect, scratchpad, page source and error console.