Outlook w/gmail: sent/recv'd msg.s sometimes garbled - HELP!

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Have you ever sent yourself a test “garbled” message to see if it comes out garbled?

Like sending a message to yourself and checking it in your web browser at Gmail’s site.

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It seems like it’s the Big5 encoding and Chinese fonts. Outlook and Word are using Chinese fonts for all your emails. Change it to a Roman font like Times New Roman and change the encoding.

Are you typing any Chinese emails?

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Thanks miltownkid & gary…

Gary

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When I switch the encoding to “Chinese Traditional (BIG5)”, some of the strange characters on this page start to appear right.

It looks like it’s a problem with mixed encodings… did you try to set the encoding to Unicode in Outlook (and Word?), before writing the e-mails?

You could even try Western (ISO-8859-1), Times New Roman and Arial should have no problem displaying Chinese characters, even with Western encoding.

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Does your Windows XP environment support Chinese encoding? I’d also make sure that’s set up as well as making sure your Outlook is set properly.