Sometimes, my email doesn't support Spanish characters... why?

Question

When I receive emails in Spanish, sometimes I can't see the Spanish characters such as Ñs and accent marks. They change into some sort of weird symbols... and it's really disturbing! I don't know what is it, because half of the time I can read them fine. Help, please!!

The problem doesn't happen just in my browser... Actually I check my mail through a POP3 client (such as Outlook)

Answer 1

it could be that the mail is entering the country illegally - and that's the reason for the characters......no, just kidding. It's your font. It's the abiltiy of your computer to translate the Spanish characters.

Open your Internet Explorer, and click on Tools - Internet Options, then click on the Languages button, then select the Add button, and add Spanish and the dialect you wish - you can highlight (select) all of them, if you like, and add them all at once.

Once this is done, you should have no further issues.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

yea you will need language support for spanish...

check microsofts website underdownloads

oh on second thought, it could be something else those symbols should all be supported under ansii..... so is there a difference in the way u recieve emails? somehow i would imagine the emails get changed into unicode text somehow.... i dont reallly know?

good luck though

yea second guy seems more right