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How do I solve reading emails in Greek language despite beiing send from the sender in Unicode or Greek windows?

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Hi to everyone.

Does anybody knows how to solve the problem reading emails in Greek language despite beiing send from the sender in Unicode or Greek windows without having to change everytime View-Text encoding, etc.? If I choose Unicode I cant read emails coming as Greek windows or the opposite.

My usual view is unified folders.
Hi to everyone. Does anybody knows how to solve the problem reading emails in Greek language despite beiing send from the sender in Unicode or Greek windows without having to change everytime View-Text encoding, etc.? If I choose Unicode I cant read emails coming as Greek windows or the opposite. My usual view is unified folders.

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Sounds like you mail senders need to get with the program. Unicode has been the "default standard" for email for some 20 years. However the encoding specified is embedded in the mail when they send it. So the question is are the embedding the wrong thing? Thunderbird does not pick and encoding, it uses what is specified in the email.

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Matt said

Sounds like you mail senders need to get with the program. Unicode has been the "default standard" for email for some 20 years. However the encoding specified is embedded in the mail when they send it. So the question is are the embedding the wrong thing? Thunderbird does not pick and encoding, it uses what is specified in the email.

Hi Matt, thanks for the answer.

My problem is how to see every email in the email list and read it without converting it. The strange thing is that when I get notifications from TB in the popup windows all emails (first lines) can be read without any problem, but this is probably a windows auto conversion.

That I need is probably a double encoding view, but I dont know if this is possible or how to do it.