Odd Problem Posting With Yahoo Mail, Other Sites

[fullbug]

I'm on a Windows XP, SP2 and I am having an odd problem I havent had before with my Yahoo Mail, when I try to compose an email, the text all comes up strange boxes and such, I'm guessing like computer code, I have run every virus scan under the sun that I can think of and it finds nothing, at this point I'm out of ideas, had this problem for a week and it wont correct itself, if you look at the screenshot you will see the text under the Subject and Title all works fine, its just in the text box, has anyone ever seen this before or know what I can do about it? :-?

[fullbug]

Nobody has seen this problem before?

[jesse2000]

Nobody has seen this problem before?

go talk with big yahoo guy

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

I think it could be a page encoding problem.

If your using IE, go to the View menu at the top, go down to Encoding and there should be a list of options. Try to choose between them and see if you can read the text.

[fullbug]

Thanx Carbon, but that didnt help, guess thats not the problem....

[patio]

Nobody has seen this problem before?

go talk with big yahoo guy

If you can't offer constructive advice don't hit the Post button.

[fullbug]

So you dont have any views on this patio? *censored*, you were kinda the one I was waiting to hear from on this, you have help me large before....If you are stumped I have a big problem....
This isnt just yahoo anymore, its done this to me on a few sites as well, but not this one, its strange....

[soybean]

Have you always had the Insert Photos button on your Yahoo Mail panel?  When I logon to Yahoo Mail and open a Compose panel, I don't have that option?

Edit: Ah, nevermind.  I found info on adding that feature.

[fullbug]

Wow, seems we have the experts stumped on this one....
Wish I could fix it....

[Spoiler]

To me it looks like your browser has something set to not work with either active-X controls and or XML. The yahoo email and hotmail use XML a lot as well as scripting.

I would suggest going to your internet options and setting everything back to the defaults. This means hitting the advanced tab and clicking restore defaults and than going tot he security and privacy tabs and setting stuff back to medium. Than close IE and open it again and try yahoo mail again.

[Rob Pomeroy]

It's a TEXTAREA box, which traditionally uses a proportionally-spaced font, e.g. Courier New.  Have you deleted that font?  It may be corrupted, so you could try deleting and re-installing it.

[fullbug]

It's a TEXTAREA box, which traditionally uses a proportionally-spaced font, e.g. Courier New.  Have you deleted that font?  It may be corrupted, so you could try deleting and re-installing it.

 Im not sure what you mean, never heard if a Textarea box, how would i delete what your saying?

[fullbug]

To me it looks like your browser has something set to not work with either active-X controls and or XML. The yahoo email and hotmail use XML a lot as well as scripting.

I would suggest going to your internet options and setting everything back to the defaults. This means hitting the advanced tab and clicking restore defaults and than going tot he security and privacy tabs and setting stuff back to medium. Than close IE and open it again and try yahoo mail again.

Will try that, thanx....

[fullbug]

Still no solution..... :-?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Create a Hotmail account or any other email account and try to create a message. Are you typing in English or in boxes?