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I have crazy characters, like international letters, showing up in the body of most of my email messages . How can I get rid of them?

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This is a sample of the characters in most messages that appear in my inbox: ’ ’ …… This only occurs in received messages. Out-going mail is fine.

This is a sample of the characters in most messages that appear in my inbox: ’ ’ …… This only occurs in received messages. Out-going mail is fine.

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View - Character Encoding - Unicode

If that doesn't help try a different encoding scheme.

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christ1
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View - Character Encoding - Unicode

If that doesn't help try a different encoding scheme.