Crazy email characters

[Let'sgoflying!]

Why do some emails have wierd symbols in them such as, "‘"?

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

It's happening only with apostrophes.

 

[Lawreston]

Though not specific to Dave's question, the apostrophe seems to be the most incorrectly-used punctuation mark in written text. Errors are rampant when referring to plurality of words: photos(NOT photo's); FBOs(NOT FBO's); and uncountable other incorrect applications when only plural reference is indicated, NOT a possessive factor.
Also, the it's(correct when "it is" shall be inferred) and its(when possession is stressed) are, without a doubt, the most common transgression in written documents.
And noting that Dave correctly applied It's(above).

There! Rant over. Happy Sunday, everyone.

HR
[EDIT] I don't know how to answer your question, Dave. The problem has something to do with programming in software. I know nothing about that but Jesse, or other IT folks, can probably answer your question.

 

[zaitcev]

Blame MS Word and Microsoft in general. It was their idea to change ASCII apostrophes into "prettier" ones. When copied into text, they unfold into their UCS-16 or UTF-8 representations.

 

[TangoWhiskey]

Dave, search your email client's help documentation and figure out how to switch the character encoding your client uses to display messages.

http://www.emailonacid.com/blog/det...ontent-type_character_encoding_in_html_emails