Hi Peter, I work in an Irish speaking area and at least half the invoices I send are in Irish, along with the attached message. However the letters with accents ( the fada) come out as question marks in the recipients emails. This makes it very difficult to read. Is there any way to correct this ?

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Hi Peter, I work in an Irish speaking area and at least half the invoices I send are in Irish, along with the attached message. However the letters with accents ( the fada) come out as question marks in the recipients emails. This makes it very difficult to read. Is there any way to correct this ?

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Peter Connor ⋅ Staff November 16, 2016
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Hi David.
I’m afraid not. A lot of how pages are displayed is controlled by email readers and browsers not us.
There is a standard toolset we use to control the front-end.
Thanks. Pete

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  1. David8 November 16, 2016
    I thought that may be the case. Thanks for getting back to me.
  2. Peter Connor November 16, 2016
    Sorry about that David. You could add a note into your invoices (create invoice / advanced) to let the client know.
    Thanks Pete
  3. David8 November 16, 2016
    Good idea, thanks for that. I think Ill add the items in English and Irish, that way they can see it properly if their display doesn't show it correctly. They joys of working through a minority language :)
  4. Peter Connor November 16, 2016
    Minority. Dangerous words David. I spent some time trying to learn Irish, I found a lot of the people involved in it. I watch the rugby on TngG but the lack of subtitles means I can't make a connection.
    Then I looked into learning language hacks one of the keys elements that keeps a language alive is necessity. That's why English speakers aren't great at languages, more out of need than ability.
    I think that pretty much makes Irish a lost language. But not when you're looking for good clean websites....
    Nice work btw - your site is lovely and clean. We tried to keep our marketing site to minimum but SEO is forcing us a different direction. You can look at the prototype here http://bullet.facebook-scraper.com/ , some fixes but you'll get the jist. I'm not much of a designer, but I'm ok at stealing good designs.
    Thanks D, sorry I didn't have a better answer for you.

    Pete

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