RE: Posts going thru Gmail have funny  symbol

Posted by Coleen_Astalos on Jan 17, 2014; 4:07pm
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Posts-going-thru-Gmail-have-funny-A-symbol-tp7589092p7589164.html

Oh, the other thing I should have mentioned as I know we initially tried setting the encoding in Gmail to UTF-8 and it didn't work.  

But I found a weird solution here: https://discussions.apple.com/message/22300841#22300841 
which basically had the person using Apple Mail to insert a Dingbat character such as this: ☂ into their email signature to force the message to be sent in unicode format.

I thought - no way is this going to work - but I tried it anyways and it did work!  

I then went back and fiddled around with my Gmail send mail settings (not the encoding - but whether it sends out the emails via Gmail or via my normal ISP) and it seems to work even without the ☂ added to the email.  So I'm not sure whether it was really sending in UTF-8 format when I was testing before.  Long explanation, but I wanted to make sure you knew that I DID try sending it in utf-8 when you asked me to originally.

Anyway, that's why I've asked a few of my users that always have emails with this problem to change their encoding in Gmail to utf-8 so I can see if that solves the problem.  

Coleen