Some emails are full of boxes and ?

Some emails come in with a ? in a box for some of the text

Mac Pro, OS X 10.11

Posted on Mar 22, 2021 4:52 PM

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BDAqua

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Mar 23, 2021 10:03 AM in response to JChrisDM

Sounds like a Font issue, copy that text from the eMail with CMD+c keys, open a new Text edit Document enter a space key then Paste& match style that text with Shift +Option+CMD+v keys... does the text now show letters?

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