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I am using Thunderbird in Hungarian language for decades but it suddenly quit sending and receiving non-ascii characters.... Please, help!

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Janosedel
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Hi,

all my non-ascii characters are suddenly and seemingly without reason replaced with question marks. In OPTIONS I have always had UTF-8 I also tried to set INBOX and SENT ITEMS PROPERTIES to UTF-8, but to no avail. The same problem presents itself in Hebrew, although I have had no problems with that before either.

Kind regards,

Janos

Hi, all my non-ascii characters are suddenly and seemingly without reason replaced with question marks. In OPTIONS I have always had UTF-8 I also tried to set INBOX and SENT ITEMS PROPERTIES to UTF-8, but to no avail. The same problem presents itself in Hebrew, although I have had no problems with that before either. Kind regards, Janos

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Zenos
Zenos
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Is it a yahoo account?

Janosedel
Janosedel Question owner
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Thank you for responding... Yes, it is... A so called "small business" account... Actually, I have already solved the problem by going to Options, Advanced, Config and changing to mailnews.force to TRUE, but your answer would still be welcome - also to those having the same problem!

christ1
christ1
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https://support.mozilla.org/questions/1206273