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The Internet was not designed to carry binary files. It is only able to
transfer messages made up of ASCII text characters. To resolve this problem
and to allow various file types to be sent over the Internet, and to be
exchanged between diverse operating systems, encoding methods have been
developed.
Q179323 File Encoding and Decoding: Overview and List of Third-Party Vendors SYMPTOMSWhen you send a Microsoft Word document as an attachment through e-mail, upon receipt, you expect it to be able to be read; however, instead it contains large amounts of random, garbled text. CAUSEThis problem may occur when there is a mismatch in encoding types between the sending e-mail client and the receiving e-mail client, such as Microsoft Outlook. WORKAROUNDFor information about how to recover the attached file from the encoded text, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q171436 OL97: E-mail Contains Text Instead of AttachmentAny further questions on encoding schemes will need to be sent to your Internet provider or e-mail software manufacturer. Additional query words: word6 word7
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