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Random Character Encoding Msg by Msg
For some reason my character encoding seems to randomly change on its own. Is that just something that happens when receiving email from other clients (such as Outlook)? It's really odd. Sometimes it's Chinese (Big5), sometimes something else.
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Inappropriate?Is this when viewing or replying to a message?
Postbox automatically detects the charset associated with the incoming message and sets it for that message accordingly so the characters render correctly which could be what you are seeing.
Note: sometimes senders use a charset even when they aren't using any characters from that charset.1 Comment
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Inappropriate?Normally with replying. I talked to a colleague using Outlook (I work at a college) and Windows was asking him to install the language pack.
That makes sense. It's not a problem for me, it's more recipients of the replies. But I understand what's going on there. -
Inappropriate?It's still going on. Pretty much every email I receive from an Exchange/Outlook address are picked up as having Japanese or Chinese character encoding. Not sure why, but every time I reply I have to change the character encoding to Western. It's getting to be pretty tiresome. If it's a local problem, I'd be interested in fixing it... or hearing if anyone else is encountering this problem.
The messages are coming from both inside our school (and a common exchange server) and external. Even replies through the iPhone Mail.app are getting weird encoding assigned to them. Maybe everyone else is just dumb and unaware of their charset config.
I’m a little tired of having to click thru the menu to change the encoding on every reply.
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Inappropriate?If you select one of these messages and go to Messages / View Source you can browse through the source to see if there is a charset encoding listed there such as BIG-5.
If there is indeed a charset listed there then the person sending you the message is setting that character set and Postbox is picking that up.
If that is the problem and you never want to care about the character set you can go to Tools / Options / Display / Fonts and force Western (ISO8859-1) on all incoming messages and on all replies.
Cheers,
-Scott
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Inappropriate?Cool. Thanks Scott. It must be everyone else that's wrong :) - they all have japanese encoding coming from Outlook by default or something...
I’m relieved.
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Inappropriate?ah glad we figured it out!
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