The second half of the ASCII character set (characters 128 through 255). Designed in the 1960s, ASCII was originally a 7-bit code (0 through 127). To accommodate foreign languages, the DOS code set ...

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Quite often, when a sender emails us in Outlook, we do not see the message but instead see unreadable characters. If you regularly see strange or incorrect characters in your Outlook email, this short ...

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