Windows Live Mail Keyboard Characters Messed Up

by JenAnne Feb 7, 2010 12:13AM PST

We purchased a HP Pavilion p6242f Desktop with Windows 7 in late December 2009. The computer was set up by the store tech who among other things downloaded and installed Window Live Mail now that Outook Express is no more.

We are having persistent problems with the keyboard in Live Mail only. If you enclose certain characters in ( ) or " ", you get stupid emoticons or strange letters with peculiar accent marks. The tech came back and checked: the language is set to English/US Canada. He couldn't find the cause.

I have read a similar complaint on Microsoft's Vista Forum but didn't see a solution. This is a brand-new computer: why is this happening?

JenAnne, Victoria, BC (Canada)

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Did you try "disable emoticons"?

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 7, 2010 12:38AM PST

Pick from http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=windows+live+disable+emoticons

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Disable emoticons

by JenAnne Feb 8, 2010 12:35AM PST

I looked at the link you provided; seems this has been going on for a long time with no fix from MS. Will stick to Ctrl - Z.

Thank you,

JenAnne

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You're right.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 8, 2010 1:53AM PST

For those that want it disabled by default, no fix will be forthcoming.

Maybe some other software title would be best?
Bob

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Windows Live Mail keyboard character problem

by raggitty Dec 7, 2011 5:39PM PST

I have just bought a new computer and am using Windows Live Mail. When I type in " or ' it looks fine when I actually type it but when I send the message these characters change to strange letters eg when I typed 'our table' it changed to incomprehensible characters. I tried to show them as an example but got a message saying @they are not part of a standard English keyboard - which I already know!!!!

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