Windows 7 why am I getting corrupt words like â��re and donâ��t on web pages and emails

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lenpatt

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For many months now, in fact since I installed windows 7 last year.
On numerous occasions I get these sort of symbols (as above) embedded in emails or webpages.
Any suggestions on how to get sort the problem out would be welcome.

Len P.
 
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I've tried it on Thunderbird first and now have "team’s" instead of
don�t.

Just about to change Firefox.

Len P.
 
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I've tried it on Thunderbird first and now have "team’s" instead of
don�t.
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Exactly, that means you are on the right track, try Unicode as well as other formats until it shows right.
 
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When I am on this forum it is in ISO-88859-1, as soon as I click on the Firefox home button it reverts to UTF-8.

Len P.
 
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It looks like UTF-8 is the answer for the U.K. (well my part of it anyway)

Thanks very much for your help in cracking the problem.

Len P.
 
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