It is now set for Windows Western. I rebooted and still get the smiley with
alt +0162.
Would another program be interfering with this?
Maxine

"Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Maxine
>
> Open the Character Map and put a checkmark to Advanced View and then in
> the Character set: box select Windows Western. Your is set to Unicode if
> you get a Smiley with that code combination
>
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> "Maxine" <missmax2@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:ejnHFU2xJHA.3476@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> International Send Setting is set to Western European (ISO) and "when
> replying to message always use English headers" is checked. Under the
> Read tab International Read Settings it says Western European (Windows)
> and box is not checked. I checked my other pc running XP and settings were
> the same and I get the 'cent' sign. I still get ? here with Vista. I
> also get the same results when I try to insert something into Works Word
> Processor. However, I do get the ¢ when using Microsoft Office Word. I
> have not tried Windows Live Mail.
> "John Barnett MVP" <freelance@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:uXqmJ%230xJHA.4012@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Maxine, I'm using Windows Live Mail but I've tried your keystroke on both
> Windows Live Mail and also Windows Mail and it works perfectly - as you
> can see - ¢
>
> Are you using Western European ISO encoding. I've never come across this
> problem before.
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> "Maxine" <missmax2@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I received several replies to this under the subject line "Using
> character map in Microsoft Mail" but still have had no success at
> correcting the problem. I really would like to solve this, so if you have
> any info I'd appreciate it.
>
> Maxine
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>
> ---Original Message---
>
> Whenever I try to insert the ¢ character into an email message
> using the
> keystroke (Alt+0162) I get a very small smiley face. This also
> happens
> when trying to insert other symbols. The only way I can insert
> anything is
> to copy and paste it into the email message. This did not happen in
> XP
> Outlook Express.
>
> Is there any way I fix this??
>
> Thanks!
>
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