I get those to sometimes.
That can happen when someone composes the message in Word with Smart
Quotes enabled, then
does a copy/paste into their mail program.
With Smart quotes, when someone types ' or " or - in Word, it converts
them to extended
characters that have the quotes lean in or out on an angle rather than
straight down or a
special dash. It's supposed to look fancier, but those characters don't
paste into
standard text well.
The samples you had probably were intended to be:
publi****ng's
Contract - A Primer
a "love song" to
Not much you can do on your end other than talk to the sender.
--
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"wylbur37" <wylbur37nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:1118139037.567668.240090@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
'm using Windows XP Pro, and Yahoo Mail.
Occasionally, some email messages contain some unusual characters
that consist of 3-letter sequences starting with some characters
that resemble the letters "a" and "E" (but aren't) followed by
a third character. Here are some examples ...
publi****ng?Ts
Contract ?" A Primer
a ?olove song? to
What causes this?
Is someone using a keyboard from a different system (e.g., a Mac)
that's generating these characters?
Or is it caused by improperly im****ting a word-processing do***ent
into plain text?
Is there something I can do on my part to correct these sequences?
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