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?

What what is all about? You don't say what its supposed to be they are
getting so how can we know what they get if we don't get it?
Brian

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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?

Brian Gaff (Sofa 2) wrote:
What what is all about? You don't say what its supposed to be they are
getting so how can we know what they get if we don't get it?
Brian

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?


This in their emails.

'

Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:

This in their emails.

emails?

'

It's html-speak for an apostrophe, shouldn't be using html here in the
first place.

On 30/04/2020 08:35, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
Brian Gaff (Sofa 2) wrote:
What what is all about? You don't say what its supposed to be they are
getting so how can we know what they get if we don't get it?
Brian

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?


This in their emails.

'

Their email client has encoded it as HTML/XML escapes and your client is
not decoding it again so you see literal HTML for special characters.

That is a guess based on your garbled description of the symptoms.

Send them an email that contains '& and see what happens.

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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?



Do you have the MID of the defective posting,
so it can be popped into Howard for a look ?

The message you posted just now, doesn't look
like there's HTML in it.

http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=ms...nt-email.me%3E

Maybe you're using another tool, or, you changed
settings, or, you *replied* to some individual who
posts in HTML+Text.

In this example from another poster, you can see
the extra materials in an HTML posting. Maybe one
of your postings, had stuff like this in it.

"Content-Type: multipart/alternative;"

http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=ms...ixmi n.net%3E

Paul

On 30/04/2020 09:49, Paul wrote:
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?


Do you have the MID of the defective posting,
so it can be popped into Howard for a look ?

The message you posted just now, doesn't look
like there's HTML in it.

http://al.howardknight.net/?STYPE=ms...nt-email.me%3E


Interestingly, that actually substitutes the proper character for the
html escape sequence, even though he actually typed it in full in the
body of the message. (i.e. it shows on the web site as an apostrophe
rather than the ampersand prefixed string.



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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.


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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?


Thanks to all that replied.