Re: Alphabet characters

From:	Tom Hughes	Date:	17 Dec 2014 11:06
In Reply To:	Alphabet characters (C J Craig)
Replies:	Re: Alphabet characters (Tom Hughes)

On 17/12/14 10:34, C J Craig wrote:

> I seem to be getting some funny characters in my emails. Is this me or
> some windows problem:
>
> The incoming mail displays "Sunday's" correctly but when I reply it
> appears as: Sunday lowercase a circumflex Euro dash s
>
> Sundayâ€™s

Something has taken a UTF-8 encoded curly quote, specifically the 
character U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK and assumed that the byte 
stream it is looking at is CP1252 and attempted to convert it to UTF-8 
leaving you with a double encoding.

So it started with the byte stream 0xe2 0x80 0x99 which is the UTF-8 
encoding of U+2019 but treated it as if it was CP1252 where 0xe2 is â, 
0x80 is € and 0x99 is ™ and translated each of those to UTF-8.

Any time you see a strange sequence like that with â as the first 
character you can be pretty sure that something is wrongly interpreting 
a UTF-8 stream as a single byte encoding and adding an extra encoding...

Tom

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