The euro sign.
The euro sign (€) is the currency sign used for the euro, the official currency of the eurozone and unilaterally adopted by Kosovo and Montenegro.
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What does this mean â €?
It is a character encoding issue. Whom ever is sending the mail is using a character set that is not appropriate. View menu (Alt+V) > character encoding and select UTF-8 or unicode should see the correct display.
Why do I see strange characters in email messages?
Messages you have received
If you see strange characters in a received message, click the Encoding button on the ribbon and select a different one, like Unicode (UTF-8). If this makes the text display properly, you may find it best to leave Use default encoding for all incoming messages not selected.
What is this character â?
Â, â (a-circumflex) is a letter of the Inari Sami, Skolt Sami, Romanian, and Vietnamese alphabets. This letter also appears in French, Friulian, Frisian, Portuguese, Turkish, Walloon, and Welsh languages as a variant of the letter “a”. It is included in some romanization systems for Persian, Russian, and Ukrainian.
Why is my email gibberish?
When you get a message, Gmail tries to guess what encoding the sender used so that it can properly open and display the message. If Gmail guesses wrong, you usually end up with a screen full of gibberish because the message wasn’t translated properly from one encoding to the other.
What is this Ã?
A with tilde (majuscule: Ã, minuscule: ã) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by addition of the tilde diacritic over the letter A. It is used in Portuguese, Guaraní, Kashubian, Taa, Aromanian, and Vietnamese.
Why does É become Ã?
This typically) happens when you’re not decoding the text in the right encoding format (probably UTF-8).
How do I get rid of the weird symbols on my email?
Turn specific formatting marks on or off
- From a new email message, select File > Options > Mail > Editor Options > Display.
- Check or uncheck the formatting marks you want to see on the screen.
Why am I getting emails with Chinese writing?
Open Outlook, click on File> Options> Language> under Edit languages, check if another language is enabled, if so, select it and click on Delete. This problem must be on the client side and not on the server side. Also try reading the message in HTML format to see if the same problem occurs.
Why do some emails come in code?
Why is my email strangely formatted, with lines of code? It usually means because you are trying to open your email with another email client than the web version of Gmail, such as Apple Mail, Outlook or Google Inbox. Or it can also happen because you copied/pasted your email from another tool like Word or Google Docs.
What sound does  make in English?
“â” is pronounced roughly like an English “ah” as in an American “hot” or British “bath”. “ê” is pronounced like an English “eh” as in “get” – the same as if it was “è” with a grave accent. “ô” is pronounced roughly like an English “oh” as in “boat” or “close”. It’s the same sound found in the French word au.
Why is â showing up?
Getting weird characters like  instead of or ’? Most likely there is a Character set problem. It can occur when a MySQL and PHP are upgraded or when data has been incorrectly stored or the application is sending an incorrect (or missing) character set to the browser.
What causes â?
The non-breaking space character is byte 0xA0 in ISO-8859-1; when encoded to UTF-8 it’d be 0xC2,0xA0, which, if you (incorrectly) view it as ISO-8859-1 comes out as “Â ” .
Why is my email coming up as HTML?
Some mail systems will display HTML as plain text in certain cases (commonly anti-spam efforts). Try sending to addresses under different domains, and viewing them using different mail clients. This can show if the HTML is being displayed as plain text in all cases, or only in cases with certain providers.
Why is my email scrambled?
An email with garbled text can be caused by the use of non-standard email system, which does not specify the message encoding scheme, by the sender. To view the email, you can select a suitable character set in the browser.
How do I fix my formatting in Gmail?
Change your default text style
- On your computer, open Gmail.
- In the top right, click Settings. See all settings.
- Scroll down to the “Default text style” section.
- Change the text in the box to be the style you want for your emails.
- At the bottom of the page, click Save Changes.
What is the í called?
Í/í is a variant of I carrying an acute accent; it represents an /i/ carrying the tonic accent.
How do you type a ç?
ç: Press Ctrl, and type “,” key. Release both keys and type “c”. ä-ë-ï-ü: Press Ctrl, Shift, and type “:” key.
What is â in Excel?
When opening the CSV file in Excel, the right single quotation mark character is converted into the “’” symbol. This is because Excel opens the CSV file using the default windows encoding (Windows-1252) and hence the character is encoded as per the Windows-1252 characterset.
What is the question mark in a diamond symbol?
A diamond (or square) with a question mark in the middle is not an emoticon, but a “replacement character.” It is displayed whenever a character is not recognized in a document or webpage.
Is a UTF-8 character?
UTF-8 (UCS Transformation Format 8) is the World Wide Web’s most common character encoding. Each character is represented by one to four bytes. UTF-8 is backward-compatible with ASCII and can represent any standard Unicode character.