You might get a Microsoft Word 2007 email attachment from friends, co-workers or others - especially someone from another country - that can't be read. The text file may contain unusual strings of ...

Q I sometimes get garbled messages in my Gmail account. Is there anything I can do to make these readable? A To account for the various characters and accented letters used around the world, different ...

According to Mr. McCann, garbled characters occur by opening a document with a different character code than when it was created. If the text is garbled, it will be a meaningless character string, so ...