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Re: unreadable emails in outlook 2003         

Group: microsoft.public.outlook · Group Profile
Author: StephenSar
Date: May 4, 2008 17:41

I paste 2 samples below:
It only happens to some of my incoming emails which I rec fm China contacts
but other emails fm China are okay. I have random question marks instead of
new
line feed and space in between becomes random characters, some characters
also change to unreadable.
I have UTF-8 Enabled and now using rich text, but same happens with HTML.

Question marks appear frequently and then the unreadable characters:

?
2008-05-04
_____

???: Jia
????: 2008-05-04?5:00:11
???: sun
??: Cen
??: RE: RE: RE: ??SGS??
?

Dear Mary,

?

Please kindly find below quotation,

1.燬ervice: 100%%

a) Workmanship check;

b) Inspection Report;

2.?Inspection Products:

Men抯 Trousers牋牋牋 ?牋牋牋 3100 pcs?

Women抯 Trousers牋牋牋 牋 3900pcs?

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Another sample below:

18:57:28?008-05-04
?
Dear Stephen,
?
It is (I have deleted part of the text here).
?
Any question please contact us at any time, thanks.
?
We are looking forward to receiveing your comments.
?
Best regards
Amanda?
?
_____

FM:爏ales DD:?008-04-30?0:33:25

--
Stephen Sar

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
> Please define "unreadable." What shows in your mail message? Nothing?
> Random characters?
>
> What character set do you have set for your encoding? What happens if you
> change it to something else?
>
> --
> Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
>
> Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
> unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
> reading.
>
> "Gordon Ching" wrote in message news:2008541057gwkching@netvigator.com...
> I run XP and Outlook 2003 and I have this problem too.
> It only started about 6 months ago but before then, everything was fine.
>
> This problem occurs even when I am the only recipient of the email which
> was sent us To: and not Bcc:( I asked the sender)
>
> Outlook receives my emails from 3 accounts/sources: Gmail, Hotmail and my
> email address with my ISP.
> The emails are perfectly legible if I were to read them directly in gmail
> or hotmail etc. If I resend the legible emails from say hotmail to gmail
> or vice versa, I get mixed/random results ie some emails are garbled again
> but some come through normal!
>
> I haven't got a clue why this happens but it is very frustrating.
>
> Gordon Ching
>
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