Thunderbird – odd symbols

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  • May 12, 2018 at 7:45 am #20587
    JukeboxJukebox
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      I usually use Thunderbird for my emails but the info on some messages appears with odd symbols between the letters :

      The problem only seems to occur with spam, but not all spam. I’ve tried changing default fonts and encryption but haven’t yet solved the problem. The messages appear OK using webmail. Any ideas?

      May 12, 2018 at 8:13 am #20590
      Ed PEd P
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        They are non-printable characters (i.e. outside the normal ascii range for print symbols (<chr$32 from memory).It normally means that someone is either trying to display a picture, or more likely with spam it is a piece of hex code trying to do something to your pc). The other alternate is that they are in a non-Western character set e.g. Ukrainian i.e the Ukrainian for ‘You like my sister?’.

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