Junk Character Inserted into Plain Text Body

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Junk Character Inserted into Plain Text Body - 2/26/2009 3:59:04 PM

ChrisA

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When using the detagger a junk character is being inserted as the first character of the plain text body.

The detagged text is as follows:

Text Converted: ´╗┐BODY1 ┬á BODY2
We are unsure how, or why, this is happening.

I have the entire command link processing in a word document, however am unable to attach such files. Please let me know if additional information is needed.

Thanks,
Chris

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RE: Junk Character Inserted into Plain Text Body - 2/26/2009 7:40:05 PM

Jaf

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This is almost certainly due to the output generating Unicode. It can do this if there is Unicode in the input, or if the HTML has HTML entities that require Unicode to represent them.

Normally the output file is marked as Unicode and programs looking at the file should interpret the two-byte character sequences as the correct character (e.g. as a copyright symbol).

If you'd like me to investigate further, please place the original HTML file in a .zip file attachement and send it to me at jaf-at-jafsoft.com. Don't paste the text into Word or anythging else as the act of copying the text into another file is highly likely to change the text... I'd need to see the original HTML file.

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