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Strange Symbols on "double-space"

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wgspurrell
wgspurrell
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I am experiencing that, whenever I input a double-space between sentences in my e-mails, the recipient is instead, seeing THIS: �

I also notice that the mail client seems to convert their incoming responses to me, such that I get the same symbols then displayed wherever THEY TOO have used double-spacing as well!

Example of displayed text from recent eMail exchange:

Haven’t heard yet from vendor will check. Not sure about your keyboard but a lot of little symbols rather than letters?

IN REPLY TO:

From: Grant Spurrell Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 5:58 PM To: Susan <Susan.xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [External] Re: contents claim


I guess I write so much, it gets lost!� LOL.� My fault.� That's what I thought I said earlier with the below.� I'll never "learn".� LOL.

Perplexing!! *(and annoying) - anyone else / any solution? HELP!! THANKS! -Grant

I am experiencing that, whenever I input a double-space between sentences in my e-mails, the recipient is instead, seeing THIS: � I also notice that the mail client seems to convert their incoming responses to me, such that I get the same symbols then displayed wherever THEY TOO have used double-spacing as well! Example of displayed text from recent eMail exchange: ----- Haven’t heard yet from vendor will check. Not sure about your keyboard but a lot of little symbols rather than letters? IN REPLY TO: From: Grant Spurrell Sent: Friday, December 18, 2020 5:58 PM To: Susan <Susan.xxxxxxxxx> Subject: [External] Re: contents claim I guess I write so much, it gets lost!� LOL.� My fault.� That's what I thought I said earlier with the below.� I'll never "learn".� LOL. ----- Perplexing!! *(and annoying) - anyone else / any solution? HELP!! THANKS! -Grant

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wgspurrell
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Following instructions from previous solution(s) don't seem to help - as the previous versions instructed "Set to force Mime_Encoding = True" no longer seems to exist in the latest version of Moz. Tried to set all (even advanced) options to force all formatting to: "Western ISO-8859-1" but to no avail. You can see that even the recipients reply, upon my forwarding (re-Test below) converts even their input double-spaces as well! - HELP!!

TIA! -Grant

Re-Test.� Double.� Double. / Single. Single.

Forwarded Message --------

Subject: RE: Re: contents claim Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2020 13:44:59 +0000

From: Susan <Susan@xxxx>

To: Grant Spurrell

Haven�t heard yet from vendor will check.� Not sure about your keyboard but a lot of little symbols rather than letters?��

sfhowes
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See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1260169

The mail.strictly_mime preference is still present in TB 78. Set the default encoding to Unicode UTF-8 for outgoing mail.