On 30/04/2020 08:03, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:

A couple of posters are getting this in their replies and postings to me
'
One uses Windows 7, the other Bluemail for Windows.

Anybody got an idea what this is all about?

Post a message here with a single quote ' character in it...

It might be that Outlook Express is treating it as a special character
and sending it in its HTML escaped format[1], and the software on the
receiving end is not reversing that escaping correctly. Or it might be
that its sending it normally, but its being shown in escaped format by
the receiving software.

(possibly more likely because OE does not include a
"Content-Transfer-Encoding" statement in the message header, which helps
give a bit more information to the receiving software on how stuff
should be interpreted).

[1] In the text of web pages (and OE makes heavy use of web standards
even for email/news), some characters have a special meanings and so
need to be sent in a special way when you want to include them in your
message and not have them have their special meanings. This is called
"escaping" basically sending a specially formatted "code" to replace the
character in question.


--
Cheers,

John.

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