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My messages from Thunderbird appear with odd characters replacing tabs.

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TonyIngold
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Messages look fine in my composition window, when the messages are received the <tab> character is replaced with three A characters. The attached image shows a message that I have sent to myself.

I'm sure there is a character encoding setting somewhere that is causing this. Any suggestions?

Messages look fine in my composition window, when the messages are received the <tab> character is replaced with three A characters. The attached image shows a message that I have sent to myself. I'm sure there is a character encoding setting somewhere that is causing this. Any suggestions?
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Toad-Hall
Toad-Hall
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Hi Try this info: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1037829