On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 07:30:07 +1300
John S Veitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Rowan asked about getting email with strange characters. The little 
> boxes are almost certainly Tabs. 
> 
> The most likely thing Rowan is that someone wrote a letter in a word 
> processor and did a copy and paste into the email client. 
> 
> The word processor has all sorts of special formatting and 
> instructions for the screen reader and the printer, and these may be 
> causing trouble in the email client.

or indeed they coule be encoded in something other than plain text, you
know russion, chinese, arabic, whatever.

> 
> Have you tried looking at the raw view? 
> 
> If you flick on of those letters to me I'd be interested to see what 
> you are talking about.
> 
> John
> 
> 


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