Strange Occurence with the character ""

[Rexolio]

Sorry if the subject wasn't descriptive enough... its a strange situation.

I have an ASP that I created for members of my site. They log in and can chat and message back and forth with other members. I have one feature where they can create a message in a text box and then click a submit button that sends an email to each member in my database.

Users either type their message directly into the text box or copy from another program and pasted it into the text box. Most times I can't see that there's a problem. But sometimes with users who copy a message from Microsoft Word into the text box and then submits the message, users who recieve text-only emails get the following:

instead of apostrophe's or quote marks, they either get a character that looks like a box () or they get something more strange, like (=2E) in place of the apostrophe's or quote marks. I can't explain it. I've tried copying and pasting from word myself and sending a message. Although I haven't gotten the equal signs, number 2's and letter E's, I've gotten the little boxes.

Sorry for the strange message, but I'm perplexed!!!

 

[codestorm]

Sounds like something to do with the font type - are they using unicode fonts, or something?

Do the database fields which store the messages support unicode? codestorm
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