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I get the box send as is, send as unicode, ect when I SEND..It appears when I copy and past into the body of an e mail...I dont know if this may have to do with encoding ect..

Is there any way anyone can give me exact outlook settings..At one time my e mail functioned fine now this comes up and I want to get rid of the problem. Thank you.

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The dialog and the odd characters described by are a classic character‑set mismatch: text created or pasted with Unicode (UTF‑8) bytes is being sent or read as a legacy code page (Windows‑1252/ISO‑8859‑1), producing “mojibake” such as extra accents or characters like  or Ã. ’s suggestion to attach the file avoids copy/paste conversion problems, but the root fix is to make the sender and the message use a consistent charset (modern choice: UTF‑8) or to send the document as a binary attachment (PDF/DOCX) so no charset translation happens. For background on how these mismatches occur see the W3C explanation of encodings and the mojibake article for examples and causes (W3C Q&A on encodings, Mojibake).

Practical steps that resolve this without guessing at every menu name:

  • When composing, paste with “Paste as plain/unformatted text” so Word smart quotes and special spaces are removed.
  • Prefer sending the resume as a PDF or as an attached .docx/.rtf instead of copying into the message body; that preserves characters exactly.
  • Configure your mail client to send outgoing messages using Unicode/UTF‑8 (look for International/Encoding options in the Mail/Message Format area) so non‑ASCII characters are encoded correctly rather than prompting each time. That prevents the “send as is / send as unicode” prompt and avoids bytes being misread on the other end.

To confirm what happened on a specific message, inspect the message source/headers and look for the Content‑Type charset (e.g., charset=UTF-8 vs charset=iso-8859-1). If the recipient still sees broken text after these changes, ask them for a screenshot and the raw headers; that will show whether the message left the sender encoded correctly or got altered in transit. For the email standard on encoding non‑ASCII headers see RFC 2047.

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after sending a copy of my resume to a friend using send as is I got it back with some funny characters like A with the tilda symbol.

I wonder if its Outlook settings or document..

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Are you trying to send special characters?

If so, it's better to attach the file with the special characters.

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