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Comment from Greg Bulmash on 2011-12-07

2011-12-07T18:43:48Z

FYI, if you've got any skill with PHP, you can take the whole mess, run quoted_printable_decode() on it, and output the results to a file to strip out all that craziness.

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Comment from Gayle on 2011-11-23

2011-11-24T06:54:56Z

I've read the article but it does not address the problem I'm having. Mine is the email I am receiving from someone has the letter A scattered throughout the text. Is it the senders computer problem or is it mine?

Typically the senders, but it's extremely difficult to say with certainty.

24-Nov-2011

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Comment from Aaron Toponce on 2011-03-14

2011-03-15T05:33:29Z

How to fix this in Thunderbid 3 and later, seeing as though the checkbox is no longer there?

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Comment from Doc Ray on 2010-04-26

2010-04-26T18:21:02Z

Here some info that I found with this problem: after much troubleshooting, I found in Windows mail my staionary was set to "My Stationary" which apparently had some bad code in it which produced the Chinese characters. In Windows Mail, go to TOOLS-OPTIONS tab, select COMPOSE tab, then try changing, or unchecking the "Mail" "Stationary" tab, click APPLY, and try it. This solved my problem, after which I deleted the My Stationary file by right clicking on ot, and choosing delete. Hope this problem is gone for good!

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Comment from Glenn P. on 2009-10-10

2009-10-11T06:57:36Z

I have very long been familiar with mail headers; I've LONG ago become all-to-acquainted with the:

Content-Type: "Quoted-Printable; Format-Flowed"

header line. I use Unix Pine, which does NOT always correctly decode Quoted-Printable, and to say that I HATE, DETEST, and LOATHE this encoding would be a vast understatement. Even more insidiously, Pine may correctly decode the E-Mail within the viewer, but God help me if I try to export the message as text! When I open the message later to read it -- what a nasty surprise, because Pine does NOT decode on Export, it merely writes the message "as-is"! Aaarrrrggghhh!!!

Pine will (alas!) happily ENCODE Quoted-Printable, so if by chance I make some kind of ghastly misstep with my own text, that's how my E-Mail may go out, any settings of mine to the contrary notwithstanding. That is something I try VERY hard to avoid, GRRRRR!

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Comment from Bill McGarry on 2009-04-23

2009-04-23T19:00:22Z

Near the end of the article, there is a link titled " How Outlook applies encoding to plain text e-mail messages in Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2002." with the URL of http://ask-leo.com/d-kb278134 This comes back as Page Not Found. I tried using search and could not find it there. But I did notice that every search that I did came back with the last result being the the Page Not Found page (and that's how it showed up in the search results).
Thanks!

Fixed it. Thanks!

- Leo
24-Apr-2009

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Comment from tom cauley on 2009-01-26

2009-01-27T02:28:03Z

Help I have the same problem as Laura above. My emails from Vista, Windows Mail have like a paragrapgh of what looks like Chinese letters. I use this for business, am looking for a job and it's getting embarrassing, especially when I send out a resume.
Thanks,
Tom

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Comment from Laura Baum on 2009-01-06

2009-01-06T16:52:11Z

Using Vista Windows mail. Ever email I send is received with this string of Chinese characters,
[characters removed]

How can I stop it?

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