how do i change to a utf-8 character set?
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Assuming your trying to make it XHTML:\n\nuse this as first line of code:\n\n<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>\n\nthis goes ABOVE the <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC... yada yada.
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Try this...\n\nGo to "View" (up above), "encoding" and click on auto if it's not on. If it is, then go to "more" and then go through all that are there (unless you know which one it is).\n\nSounds like the e-mail you got was written with different characters (like if it's from overseas). So this solution should help
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You have everything you need in Control Panel. Go into Keyboards and mouse settings. There you will find settings to change to whatever language you need. You can change it back any time you like.\n\nGood luck!
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Don't really understand why, but you could try changing your password to an English one, just to try and isolate the problem and see if it is to do with the Alt+Shift part.
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You need an application (text editor or the like) that produces documents in unicode format.  There are several available.\n\nFrom the programming side, you can declare your variables as widestring types (BSTR in COM).\n\nUnicode is a multi-byte character format (2, 4, 8 16, and 32-byte formats).  Windows widestring types are typically 2-byte (UCS-2) characters, although other types are available.  Many Unix-based systems use 8 byte (UTF-8) or 16 byte (UTF-16) character sets.
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Go to Insert Symbol, then choose the one to insert. The language settings do not help you put them in.
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grrr windows and HTML. Try vim for windows! you can get it at http://www.vim.org/download.php or you can try and use notepad and do a save as and set the encoding to  ANSI
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What you're likely getting there is an e-mail from somebody using an international character set that isn't installed on your system.  Chinese, for example, uses UNICODE characters and needs a chinese font.  \n\n(Gross simplification here: English and European languages have a pretty small set of characters, including upper and lower case letters, numbers, punctuation marks, etc.  Chinese, Japanese, Sanskrit, etc. need many more symbols, which means a different way of organizing the characters).\n\nI'm going to assume you're using a browser-based e-mail system like Yahoo mail.  Follow the link in the "sources" box below.  It's some sort of Chinese lyrics web site I found for this answer.  Do you see the strange symbols you're talking about?  If so, that's likely what's happening.  \n\nYou can download a few common character sets, like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. and see if you can see the characters in your e-mail subject line.  Not that that'll help you understand them, of course.\n\nIf you're having this problem with a stand-alone e-mail client (ie, not your web browser) you may have an older e-mail program that doesn't support UNICODE.  You may want to look into upgrading.
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Try understanding what ASCII truly is\n\nthen, whichever browser you're useing, will give you the option to "Save page as" where instead of "Web Page, complete" (html)\nyou switch to "Text Files"
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You can't really because of the file name within the program itself.  It depends on the source.  If its from another user who has a strange user name, then it may not be in English.
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The encoding on the message is not set to Western / Latin-1. Forward the message inline back to the client and ask them to check that their e-mail program is using the proper encoding.
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Go Start menu - Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Character map, and search through there.  I don't think there is an alt key code to do this though.
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If your using Firefox, try going to the View->Character Encoding in the main toolbar and selecting the correct one for your letters.  I don't use IE but it's probably the same kind of thing.
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change it from "view" tab , choose "encoding, then arabic
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You can always go to the Insert Symbol menu, and when you find the letter with the accent it will give you the codes. \nalt +0223 = ß for example.\n\nIt's even easier with a Mac.  For example option u then the letter you want will put an umlaut on the letter ü (PC code alt +0252 ont he number keyboard.)
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Use escape character "&#92;"
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simple error one of your file names has an invalid character