This email problem isnt such a big deal, but once I started investigating , I have to find the solution and each time I turn the corner I get more mad. This encoding thing confuses me, maybe someone can clarify my many questions. Does encoding affect the way emails are sent, received, or both? If a person with AOL, doesnt use IE or Netscape, are their settings within AOL to change the encoding. On everyone's pc who I have contacted, they cant change the encoding. It defaults back to where the dot originally was. On my pc for instance, it defaults to Unicode UTF8, I read this was used for windows NT or better, and I have win98.
One of the people who receives the weird emails, has IE version 4.72.3110 and she doesnt have an encoding option in view. We found something in "fonts", but western euopean ISO wasnt listed, western alphabet was and that is where the black dot defaulted to.