If you have viewed a Web page containing strange characters you did not understand, you may have seen Unicode characters. Unicode consists of a character set that covers most languages in the world.

Quite often, when a sender sends a mail to us via Outlook, we do not see the message but some unreadable characters. If you regularly see some strange or incorrect characters in your Outlook mail, ...

‘A’ is represented by the decimal number 65 (binary 1000001, hex 41), ‘B’ by 66 (binary 1000010, hex 42) and so on up to ‘Z’, which is represented by the decimal number 90 (binary 1011010, hex 5A).