This has only occurred once and that today. Changing the encoding to utf-8 changed the display but it was just as unintelligible :
Encoding anomaly in email from forum
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Encoding anomaly in email from forum
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Re: Encoding anomaly in email from forum
I think it is just a corrupted mail message. If you look at the Forum reply from Kramy, which is (I think) the original of this, the third seventh and fourteenth chars should be a space; in your screenshot, these are not consistent, as they ought be if it were merely an encoding problem. I think it has lost a bit or had some bits added in the course of transmission.
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Re: Encoding anomaly in email from forum
As far as I remember, email messages are supposed to be plain 7-bit ascii, always.
So you should be able to view the raw message ("view source") and see what's happening.
So you should be able to view the raw message ("view source") and see what's happening.
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Re: Encoding anomaly in email from forum
Thanks. I am using Yahoo web mail for the forum and the closest it has to "view source" is "view full header" from which I get :
The option closest to ASCII 7-bit is 'ASCII'.Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 01:10:26 +0000
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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