Sunday, December 18, 2005

Computer buggings 2

I've found another string of question marks. It happens when you do a paste special in Eudora and the dialog box comes up with the options "????" or HTML. The "????" should be "Text" I assume because that's what happens when I select it. I can't work out how to Google this mystery either. Variations of "message question marks dialog box windows XP" haven't revealed much.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

If it's just Eudora that's the problem then I'd hazard the following guesses:

1. Corrupted Eudora resources: reinstall or upgrade Eudora

2. Eudora is being handed Unicode text by Windows, and it doesn't support it yet: live with the problem. Perhaps you have added some French localisation to your Windows XP install?

3. Back everything up - twice. Grab your Windows XP CD, cross your fingers and run through the "repair" process.

I couldn't find anything either. My search skills aren't great, though.

unique_stephen said...

I think you have a problem with character sets and displaying unicode characters.
check out:
http://www.unimelb.edu.au/webcentre/tools/developertools/characterentities.html

http://www.chami.com/tips/internet/050798I.html