Pound sign "£" in emails - using mail

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Pound sign "£" in emails - using mail

sending out some emails yesterday, using some figures - tried sending £ symbol however, when people receive the email its not showing up just a question mark... so they not getting lets say £123.00 but ?123.00..

I have checked my language settings and all set to GB - so not sure whats going on, anyone have any suggestions on what I should check?

MacBook 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Jan 5, 2007 7:37 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 5, 2007 7:39 AM in response to Andrew_Lincoln

update...

I have just sent myself an email from a webmail service - and I can receive £ signs... forwarded it back to the webmail account and the £ symbol shows up without any problem!

MacBook 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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Answer 2

diffkid

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Jan 5, 2007 8:32 AM in response to Andrew_Lincoln

It sounds like a missing font or glyph issue for the people you're sending mail to.

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Tom Gewecke

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Jan 5, 2007 9:58 AM in response to Andrew_Lincoln

sending out some emails yesterday, using some figures
- tried sending £ symbol however, when people receive
the email its not showing up just a question mark...
so they not getting lets say £123.00 but ?123.00..

If you are sending in Rich Text format and possibly with attachments, and the recipient is using Windows Outlook, the latter has some bugs that could cause this. The easiest fix is to switch to Plain Text.

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