Re: Alphabet characters

From:	Tom Hughes	Date:	17 Dec 2014 11:10
In Reply To:	Re: Alphabet characters (Tom Hughes)

On 17/12/14 11:06, Tom Hughes wrote:
> 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.

Ignore the bit about double encoding, that's really an artefact of me 
reading your email in a UTF-8 environment.

Your email was claiming that the content was CP1252 when that bit of it 
was really UTF-8 and my mail reader was doing the upconversion.

The basic principle is correct though, that UTF-8 data is being 
interpreted as CP1252.

Tom

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