RE: Posts going thru Gmail have funny  symbol

Posted by Coleen_Astalos on
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Posts-going-thru-Gmail-have-funny-A-symbol-tp7589092p7589161.html

Pedro,
Here is a test that I did that I think shows the problem happens while going thru Nabble.

I sent an email from my Gmail account to Nabble and CC'd it to my Gmail account.  It was sent with utf-8 encoding.

The copy that I get directly (without going thru nabble) the encoding remains as utf and shows in the HTML as:
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode">

The copy that goes thru Nabble, the encoding changes to windows-1252:
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

I don't know where the encoding gets set in Nabble when the emails are generated - but it appears that the encoding is being set to windows-1252 and perhaps needs to be changed to utf-8.

All the emails I get from Nabble have the windows-1252 encoding (not just the ones sent via gmail).  But apparently it's only a problem with gmail originated emails as they apparently add some special characters that are only handled properly by utf-8 encoding.  If I change the encoding in Outlook to show the message in utf-8 format the funny  character goes away.  But there isn't a way in Outlook to set utf-8 as a default as Outlook uses the encoding provided in the email itself (as it should).  So in order to change the encoding to utf-8, you have to change it for each individual incoming message which is a pain (and most of my members wouldn't want to or know how to do).

Let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Coleen