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Thread ID: 19095	2002-05-08 12:26:00	Chinese virus?	Guest (0)	Press F1

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47772	2002-05-08 12:26:00	Last year my 10.2 meg Pavillion HP developed an annoying and reoccuring fault. When sending emails to some, not all of my contacts, the message is turned into unreadable gibberish and numbers. The sign that this has happened is a strange y with 2 dots above it next to a p with a longer back upright! My son (the I.T. geek) tells me that it is some form of deep seated virus that requires the reformating of my C drive and reinstalling of all my programmes. Please please someone tell me he is wrong!!!!! I run Norton anti virus and auto update daily. Is this a virus? if so what is it called!!!!!Help!!!!!	Guest (0)
47773	2002-05-08 19:56:00	Before you go rushing into a reformat, it almost sounds like you have or the receiver has some form of Language Support enabled to allow you to send in eg-Chinese script. I have copied/pasted from my own Outlook Express Help section, see if that helps ++++++++++++++ To read and send international messages Outlook Express can usually display messages in the language in which they were sent. However, some messages, particularly those from newsgroups, often do not have enough information (or the information is incorrect) in the header file to display the correct language. To change the language encoding for a message you are reading In the message window, on the View menu, point to Encoding, and then click the language encoding you want to use. (You must already have support for that language, which you can get from the International area of the Internet Explorer Web site.) Outlook Express displays incoming messages using the default encoding for reading messages unless the message header specifies a particular language encoding. To set the default encoding for reading messages On the Tools menu, click Options, and on the Read tab, click Fonts. Select a language at the top, and then click Set as Default. Sending international messages When you reply to a message, it is sent in the same language encoding as the original message. If you change the language encoding in your reply, the original characters may not appear properly unless you are sending the message in HTML (and the receiving program can read HTML). You can also send the message using Unicode; however, not all e-mail and news reading programs can display a Unicode message. To use a different encoding for sending a single message In the message window, on the Format menu, point to Encoding and then click the language encoding you want to use. New messages use the default encoding setting for sending messages. To set the default encoding for sending messages On the Tools menu, click Options. On the Send tab, click International Settings, and then select the default encoding you want to use.	Guest (0)
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