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Help ' for apostrophe issue for verizon email under ICS

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frank1492

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Can someone tell me if this issue has ever been resolved???
and if there is a solution? Virtually all of my recipients complain about it.
As of the last time I checked the forums nobody seemed to have a definitive answer but many people report it.
It's unclear whether it's tied to the email app or the keyboard (I've tried a couple of keyboards) but I don't think I encountered it until I switched to ICS. Also some report that it's sporadic (mine is all the time.)
Everything looks fine when it is sent, but when received ' substitutes for '.
Help much appreciated!
Frank
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Are you sending your email as HTML?
Check the settings in your email application.

You may need to change the text encoding that is selected in the settings: Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) instead of Unicode (UTF-8), etc.

See: "List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references" in Wikipedia
 
Wouldn't that be something that they would need to change on their end? It shouldn't matter what you have it set as it's the person receiving it that has to have it set a certain way so it displays correctly.

No?
 
carracerz14 said:
Wouldn't that be something that they would need to change on their end? It shouldn't matter what you have it set as it's the person receiving it that has to have it set a certain way so it displays correctly.

No?
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Not sure.

If you send Unicode that encodes an apostrophe as the character entity reference "'", a recipient using Latin-1 may display those 6 characters instead of decoding the character entity reference.
 
I just recently upgraded my DROID 4 to the latest operating system (or whatever you call it). Ever since I did this when I send an email it is received and has an "&apos" instead of the actual apostrophe.

I saw a post from back in June but no actual reason as to why it was happening. All I did is upgrade it, I have changed no settings.

Help?
 
The ICS Ice Cream Sandwich version of the Android operating system uses a newer version of HTML than the HTML used by some other operating systems. The HTML5 in ICS codes some characters differently than earlier versions of HTML, causing the problem. The problem will probably continue until the people using the older versions upgrade their systems.

Sending your emails formatted as plain text instead of HTML may help.
 
I'm not familiar with native email, but in K-9 email the text/HTML setting is under More/Settings/Account Settings/Sending Mail/Message Format
 
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