Error: Question mark ? in crew brief email

Error: Question mark ? in crew brief email

Error:
Question marks appearing in emails sent from FOS.

Crew Brief, Please Acknowledge
TEST 27/02/18 14:04 Local (27/02/18 06:04 UTC)
test

Leg 1 27/02 22:00 ZJSY-ZBAA 01:24 0 TEST///
Leg 2 28/02 19:00 ZBAA-VHHH 22:06 0 TEST///
________________________________________
????????????????????
Trip 20338 Leg 1
TAC BD75
ZJSY-ZBAA
ETE: 3:24 NM: 1355 TZC: 0
Catering: NO
Departure Transport: NO
Arrival Transport: NO



Solution:
FOS is using a repeating overline (macron) character, ' ̄'. This character is a 2 byte Unicode character, U+00AF. You can get it from the Windows character map, or use Alt+0175.
The email program can't display that special character, and so it replaces it with a ?.

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