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Why am I getting a lot of "A" with a "^" sign over it in the quoted text when forwarding a message

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darylholle
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On most messages I receive, if I try to forward to someone else.........or sometimes even on a reply to original sender, there will be lots of the letter "A" with the symbol "^" over the A mixed in the forwarded text. It looks like this is happening in the place of a space on most lines of text. On occasion, there are also very strange characters mixed in the forwarded text, but they will all be IN BOLD.

On most messages I receive, if I try to forward to someone else.........or sometimes even on a reply to original sender, there will be lots of the letter "A" with the symbol "^" over the A mixed in the forwarded text. It looks like this is happening in the place of a space on most lines of text. On occasion, there are also very strange characters mixed in the forwarded text, but they will all be IN BOLD.

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FredMcD
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Type about:preferences#content<enter> in the address bar. Across from fonts and colors, press the Advanced button. On the bottom, turn on Allow Web Sites To Choose Their Own.

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darylholle
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Hi FredMcD I found what you reference but that is in FIREFOX. My problem is showing up in THUNDERBIRD messages on a forward or reply. please see attached.

FredMcD
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You had not said this was in Thunderbird. I've called the big guys to help you.

Those look like they could be command characters.

cor-el
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That is a problem with the encoding. Make sure that Unicode is selected and not an 8 bit Western or Windows encoding.

  • Firefox > Web Developer > Character Encoding
  • View > Character Encoding
darylholle
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Hi cor-el, my problem is with Thunderbird messages, not Firefox. I check Firefox and Unicode is selected.

cor-el
cor-el
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Then you need to check that in Thunderbird. I will move this question to Thunderbird support.

the-edmeister
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moved to the Thunderbird questions queue

darylholle
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So sorry, but I don't know where Thunderbird questions queue is located? Somehow I got here through Thunderbird help, but that probably was my error.

I did check Thunderbird >View >Character encoding and it is set to Unicode. Thanks for your help.

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