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Accented words don't come across correctly when e-mailed

ThatAdamGuy  Pro User  says:

Hi there,

I sent a photo to flickr by e-mail, and my friend's accented name (Desirée) came across as Desir[weird character]e. :(

When editing the photo with her manually on Flickr, I was able to correct it and have her name look right.
Posted at 3:24PM, 27 March 2005 PDT ( permalink )

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Brenda Anderson  Pro User  says:

If you go to your mail program and look at your 'sent mail', does it look okay there? Maybe it's the email program? Don't know.
Posted 87 months ago. ( permalink )

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Collin Grady  Pro User  says:

Were you sending with UTF-8 encoding?
Posted 87 months ago. ( permalink )

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ThatAdamGuy  Pro User  says:

I'm using Outlook, and the sent mail looked fine there. UTF-8... hmm... refresh my memory. Is that typically the default? Any ideas where that setting'd be in OL2003?
Posted 87 months ago. ( permalink )

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straup says:

ThatAdamGuy - Would you please forward me a copy of the original message that failed, at aaron [at] ludicorp [dot] com
Posted 87 months ago. ( permalink )

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... has left the building says:

That happens the other way 'round, too. When I get a Flickr mail forwarded to Outlook Express, foreign characters in the name of the sender are not displayed correctly.

Before, the Flickr nickname was displayed as sender, but since a while the real name is displayed. That's when this started to happen.

This is just FYI, no big deal.
Posted 87 months ago. ( permalink )

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ThatAdamGuy  Pro User  says:

Aaron... just sent it. :)
Posted 87 months ago. ( permalink )

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Jesssss says:

I have a similar problem when blogging photos. I can´t use accents in the title of the post, and when I type an apostrophe (which is the same key to use to add an accent to words like Desirée) it appears correctly on Flickr, but on my blog it comes up as ´ (e.g. can´t). I then have to go into my blog host site and correct it all by hand.

This is most likely because I am posting from South American keyboards, which are set up slightly different from North American keyboards. The apostrophe is actually in the same place but functions differently: it appears either as an accent or as an apostrophe depending on the letter which is typed immediately afterwards.
Posted 87 months ago. ( permalink )

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Collin Grady  Pro User  says:

Jesssss: actually, the problem is Blogger. They do not properly support UTF8, so extended characters get screwed up.
Posted 87 months ago. ( permalink )

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straup says:

ThatAdamGuy - I am not able to reproduce the problem with the message you sent me. Can you try posting again, and if the problem persists send me a screen shot with the offending characters. Thanks,
Posted 87 months ago. ( permalink )

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Julie70  Pro User  says:

´ (e.g. can´t). yes that it is with french keyboard too, if it is "because of the Blogger" then why through Hello I can send correctly accents?
Posted 86 months ago. ( permalink )

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