Accented characters not encoded properly in Mail since 10.6

Messages I type that contain accented or otherwise special characters appear fine as long as I'm typing them but get re-encoded in a way that is unreadable by recipients AND by me. I.e, if I go to my Sent folder and check such messages, all accented characters have become unreadable.
I don't remember ever having that problem with 10.5
It also does not seem to be a systematic issue. I think I have it more when answering to a message or when transferring a message, as if Mail used the encoding method of the initial sender.
Anyone else has this problem?

The general approach at this time is to ask if you've checked for any problematic fonts (all languages) with Apple's Font Book (look in the Applications folder). Find and remove all duplicates also.
Start there to be sure all fonts that are in play come out with a clean bill of health.
Don't hesisate to perform wholesale deletion of old and/or little used fonts - be skeptical of anything that has come from Office 2008, including those related to an Equation Editor installation.
By all means be sure any 3rd party apps AND plug-ins are Snow Leopard compatible.
An additional measure is to clear the existing font caches:
http://www.macworld.com/article/139383/2009/03/fontcacheclear.html
That said, 10.6.2 release notes have this to say about fonts:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3874
Fonts fixes provided for:
• an issue with font spacing
• an issue in which some Fonts are missing
• font duplication issues
• an issue with some PostScript Type 1 fonts not working properly
Good luck in any case.

Similar Messages

  • Keyword search not working properly in Mail since iCloud upgrade

    Since I upgraded to iCloud from MobileMe and Lion from Snow Leopard, the new Mail (Version 5.2 (1278)) does not execute keyword searches properly.  With the previous version I could start entering a keyword and all potential matches based on my criteria (email contents, from, to, subject etc.) would populate the window with all possible matches from whichever folders I specified or all folders. That is not happening now.  I have entered numerous keywords in the search box for matches I know exist, but they are not being found.
    Anyone also seeing this issue?  I am using Mail to access an IMAP email account for my business. Again, this was not a problem before the migration to iCloud and the forced Mail version upgrade.
    Richard

    Thank you. I can't find "startup volume" in the side bar. Is that my SSD (or hard disc) main boot drive you're taliking about? I hope this will work...
    If it doesn't work, you might try posting a new discussion to see if others might have some thoughts on it.
    Well, there's another post (here):
    http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1293956
    from the looks of it, I'm in serious trouble as this is now becomming a common issue and one that has no resolve. This really messes everything up as I need (as well as a lot of others out there) to use the search on a daily basis for me to check on past emails. I rely on that to work. This is terrible... There is really no other way to search for anything now. What was Apple thinking?...
    Again, I look forward to your reply to my (above) question...

  • KDE/Dolphin, Accented Characters Not Showing Properly.

    What should look like this:
    Hùg Air A' Bhonaid Mhòir
    Looks like this:
    01 Hùg Air A' Bhonaid Mhòir
    My locale information is as follows:
    LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
    LC_CTYPE="en_CA.UTF-8"
    LC_NUMERIC="en_CA.UTF-8"
    LC_TIME="en_CA.UTF-8"
    LC_COLLATE="en_CA.UTF-8"
    LC_MONETARY="en_CA.UTF-8"
    LC_MESSAGES="en_CA.UTF-8"
    LC_PAPER="en_CA.UTF-8"
    LC_NAME="en_CA.UTF-8"
    LC_ADDRESS="en_CA.UTF-8"
    LC_TELEPHONE="en_CA.UTF-8"
    LC_MEASUREMENT="en_CA.UTF-8"
    LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_CA.UTF-8"
    LC_ALL=
    I haven't any idea what to do, so I appreciate any input you can give me.  Thanks.

    I am guessing that you probably need to change either the Locale or the encoding info (i.e. UTF-8) in the Locale.  Also possibly, (but less likely IMO) a change in fonts would fix the issue.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_sets#Code_unit

  • TS4002 Icloud Mail doet not work properly with PC since a few days!!!

    Icloud Mail doet not work properly with PC since a few days!!!

    If you can't solve your issue and no one in the community can help, contact support to speak with a tech support agent at (800) 631-3811.
    - Peter

  • French special characters not displayed properly in discoverer 11g

    Gurus
    We are upgrading to discoverer 11.1.1.3
    I have found that French special characters (letters with accents) are not displayed properly in the discoverer tool menu.
    Example
    Sélectionner is displayed as S?lectionner.
    This doesn't seem to be a server issue as one of the tester (in U.S) is able to see the french characters displayed and ironically it is not the case in France itself where this is required.
    Please help
    Regards
    Ariv

    Pl post details of the two clients being used in this scenario - the exact OS version, browser version, browser language settings, Java version etc
    Since the accented character shows on one client , the issue is with the client or the settings on the client where the accented character is not showing correctly.
    HTH
    Srini

  • Why is not working my icloud Mail since 3 days? Isn't it terrible?

    Why is not working my icloud Mail since 3 days? Isn't it terrible?

    Hi Elma,
    If you are having issues with the Camera on your iPhone after updating to iOS 7, you may find the Camera portion of the following article helpful:
    iPhone: Hardware troubleshooting
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2802
    Regards,
    - Brenden

  • Fonts Will Not Display Properly In Mail

    Messages that I am receving in Mail will not display properly. All characters are represented with square with the letter A. I attached a screen shot.
    I changed the default fonts to many different options and nothing has worked.
    Any help would be great.

    Open up Font Book and validate your fonts.  You may have a corrupt font or corrupt font database.

  • Unicode Characters not displaying properly after updating to 13.0.1+

    Previously, I had installed the Symbola font because certain symbols were not displaying properly in Firefox (notably on Twitter). Installing the font solved the problem for the most part (the four bit hex characters still didn't show up, but the six bit ones did).
    After updating to 13.0.1 the other day, the six bit hex codes do not show the correct symbol anymore with Symbola still installed. I even deleted Symbola from my fonts, redownloaded it (a newer version, no less), installed it, and opened Firefox, and it did not solve the issue. Like the 50 million other things that Firefox broke with the update to 13. -_-
    EDIT: This issue has since persisted with 14.0.1.

    Try to install the DejaVu font.
    *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts
    *http://dejavu-fonts.org/

  • French accented characters not translated during decodeIncomingMessage

    Hello,
    Our b2b.log displays the correct French syntax during the decryption process after receiving message from our partner.
    "oracle.tip.adapter.b2b.exchange.ebms.EBMSExchangePlugin:decryptAndVerify Enter"
    example = È
    But the French characters translate to ? during the
    "oracle.tip.adapter.b2b.exchange.ebms.EBMSExchangePlugin:decodeIncomingMessage" and
    "oracle.tip.adapter.b2b.exchange.ebms.EBMSExchangePlugin:getPayload"
    I tried setting a unix environment variable on the B2B server NLS_LANG=CANADIAN FRENCH_CANADA.WE8MSWIN1252
    But this did not help.
    Should I also ask the NLS_LANG be set on the database server?
    thanks in advance,
    Ken

    Hello Anuj,
    It takes awhile to arrange a change configuration with our IT section and arrange a test message with our partner.
    But we did arrange a test a few minutes ago.
    The b2b_2.log tip.properties reads as:
    -bash-3.00$ grep encoding tip.properties
    oracle.tip.adapter.b2b.encoding=ISO-8859-1
    #oracle.tip.adapter.b2b.encoding=Cp1252
    #oracle.tip.adapter.b2b.encoding=UTF-8
    But the b2b.log contains:
    -bash-3.00$ grep encoding b2b_2.log
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    2009.10.30 at 15:27:23:186: Thread-13: B2B - (DEBUG) oracle.tip.adapter.b2b.callout.B2BCalloutHandler:processIncomingCallout payload after callout: <?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
    2009.10.30 at 15:27:23:358: Thread-13: Repository - (INFORMATION) BIND VARS = (7720B238D6E7808EE0430AFA0B04808E-11-1, 11, 1, N, , 1070, clob, <?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    2009.10.30 at 15:30:59:311: Thread-13: B2B - (DEBUG) oracle.tip.adapter.b2b.callout.B2BCalloutHandler:processIncomingCallout payload after callout: <?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
    2009.10.30 at 15:30:59:368: Thread-13: Repository - (INFORMATION) BIND VARS = (7720B238D6F2808EE0430AFA0B04808E-11-1, 11, 1, N, , 1070, clob, <?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?>
    <?xml version="1.0" *encoding="utf-8"* ?>
    Does this indicate that the encoding did not take effect?
    Do we need to remove the commented lines in the tip.properties file?
    The accented characters translated to ? in this test (in b2b.log)
    thanks
    Ken

  • The Unit, Season 4, Episode 9 "Shadow Riders" Audio Not Encoded Properly

    Purchased a season pass for "The Unit" season 4. The most recent episode, 9: "Shadow Riders" has an issue where the audio has not been encoded properly. The episode opens with ambient soundscape and soundtrack, however no dialog is audible. This continues the entire duration of the episode making it unwatchable.
    Apple, please issue an update to this episode that has been encoded correctly.
    (repost of http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1803771&tstart=15 -- unsure where to post)

    To report, you have to click on the season pass in your purchase history which then opens up all the individual episodes. Glad apple is on it. Here is the reply I just got which is a little unsatisfactory in that they just say come back in a few weeks.... I'd prefer a look into it, fix it, then e-mail me cycle.
    "I understand that you received a download of "The Unit" that has an issue with the dialogue sound. I'm sorry to learn that this item did not meet the standard of quality you have come to expect from the iTunes Store.
    I have reversed the charge for the purchase. The credit of $1.95 for that episode should be posted within five business days.
    I have also submitted this item for investigation. Apple takes the quality of the items offered on the iTunes Store seriously and will investigate the issue with this item, but I can't say when or if the issue will be resolved. Please try again in a few weeks.
    Please ensure that your computer meets the minimum system requirements, and that iTunes and QuickTime are up to date on your computer. To play purchased videos, you need iTunes 7 or later and must meet the "Additional Video Requirements", which are listed on this page under the Windows/Mactinosh system requirements:"

  • Special French characters not displaying properly

    Hi:
    I am using Weblogic 9.2, struts 1.2, JDOM,and ejb.
    I read special characters from the properties files using struts but when I assigned it to xml tags(JDOM elements) it is not showing properly in the xml tags.
              Element header = new Element("header");
              while(elementListItor.hasNext())
                   Element child = (Element)elementListItor.next();
                   String name = child.getName();
                   header.addContent(new Element(name).setText("Montant pay?", name)));
                   i++;
    Yours,
    Desperate.

    Hello,
    If you are displaying the report output as a PDF output then you need to make sure that:
    -NLS_LANG is set to French
    -the fonts used in the report are installed on the PC
    -the characters are stored correctly in the database
    -PDF subset is configured
    How to Use Font Subsetting in Reports for PDF Output (Doc ID 207711.1)
    Regards,
    Alex

  • Hungarian characters not displaying properly

    What is the fix for ColdFusion MX 6.1 when it does not
    display foreign characters properly? I have 2 links one just and
    HTML page which displays my hungarian characters properly and when
    I change it to a ColdFusion Page it does not display properly.
    HTML Page
    http://www.etlsoft.hu/demo1/index6.htm
    ColdFusion Page
    http://www.etlsoft.hu/demo1/index6.cfm

    FYI I was able to solve the problem by adding this tag.
    <cfprocessingdirective pageencoding = "UTF-8" />

  • Thai characters not showing properly

    Hi,
    When creating a product catalog in thai language the characters do not show properly. The characters have small aspects attached to them that hover above as you can see here http://www.gte-premium.com but when editing in Indesign the small aspects that are meant to hover above overlap the portion of the character below and are not aligned left to right properly.
    I have tried every thai-friendly font I can find but this does not fix the problem, how can I amend this?
    Thanks in advance

    If you're using a well-made font, you can probably get the tone marks to behave by turning on the World-Ready Composer. It's exposed in InDesign CC and CS6, in the Paragraph menu I think, but if you're using an earlier version of InDesign it's a hidden feature that you would need to use a script or a plugin to turn on.

  • ICal To-Do list does not sync properly with Mail To-Do list

    For some reason, my iCal To-Do List does not sync properly with my Mail To-Do list. Any thoughts on how to get them to sync properly? I always have more To-Dos on my Mail list than my iCal list, which probably means that when I complete a To-Do in iCal, it doesn't register with Mail.
    Any thoughts?

    ensure that your mail set up is checked for syncing note; your comment on the todo list is valid and i have been asking the same question for a while. ToDo also syncs on blackberry? I guess it shows that third party software is the kick that come corp's need to pick up their act.

  • A few weeks ago I had to reinstall itunes on my PC because the latest itunes update did not install properly.  Ever since doing that something called Mobile Me keeps popping up whenever I open email (outlook) and slowing it down. How do I remove MobileMe

    A few weeks ago an itunes upgrade did not install properly on my PC so I had to uninstall itunes and everything associated with it.  I was able to reinstall itunes and it works fine including syncing with my ipod.  However, now whenever I open my email (outlook) a box pops up stating MobileMe Services has stooped working. This happens a couple of times after I click to close the program.  This a nusance and really slows down getting to my email.  From what I've found MobileMe was something that used to be used by itunes to sync mobile devices but is no longer used by itunes.  I can't find a way to remove this MobileMe from my PC.  I've tried going into Contol Panel then Programs and Features to uninstall it but there is no button there to uninstall it.  Any suggestions on how this can be removed?

    Do you have a backup that you can restore from? Your old hard drive seems to be the problem.

Maybe you are looking for