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instead of accents on letters for foreign language, I get strange symbols.

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me email messages in French have strange symbols instead of accents. How can Firefox correct that?

me email messages in French have strange symbols instead of accents. How can Firefox correct that?

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cor-el
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Check the encoding and make sure that you are using the correct Unicode or 8 bit Windows or Western encoding.

  • View > Character Encoding
  • Firefox > Web Developer > Character Encoding (Windows, Linux)

Modified by cor-el