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garnet

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    words in news letters are showing symbols
    « on: May 23, 2011, 04:24:16 PM »

    Just curious but would like to fix this problem if possible. - sometimes in a news letter some of the words come out with symbols mixed in with letters.  Like so-          €œstuff”.

    Does anyone know why, and what can I do about this mumble jumble???

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    Re: words in news letters are showing symbols
    « Reply #1 on: May 23, 2011, 04:31:44 PM »
    Maybe it is Unicode.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode
    Some web sites use Chinese and other fonts that need Unicode. If your browser does not get it right, you get symbol soup.

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      Re: words in news letters are showing symbols
      « Reply #2 on: May 23, 2011, 04:35:18 PM »
      That was quick.

      First - thanks  so much.
      Second -  Do I  change something on my computer, and how do I do this?

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      Re: words in news letters are showing symbols
      « Reply #3 on: May 23, 2011, 05:51:43 PM »
      Hmm, I don't remember. My PC is just English, but I can get to sites with Unicode. It is in my browser. Look at this:
      http://www.hotpeachpages.net/lang/index.html
      If you do not see the proper eastern language symbols, your browser does not have the proper Unicode stuff.
      On the bove site look for :

      Click on it and follow the guidelines given.

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        Re: words in news letters are showing symbols
        « Reply #4 on: May 23, 2011, 08:00:36 PM »
        thanks again geek,

        Will check it out.

         ;D