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how to get thunderbird to dispaly german letters e.g. ü etc in received e-mails

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bodhiwat
bodhiwat
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incoming e-mails display this

Bad Dürrheim

when it should read Bad Dürrheim

notice the special character (ü) and i need to have thunderbird display these texts correctly

incoming e-mails display this Bad Dürrheim when it should read Bad Dürrheim notice the special character (ü) and i need to have thunderbird display these texts correctly

Ọ̀nà àbáyọ tí a yàn

looks to me like the senders mail system is not encoding the message correctly.

Press F10 to make the menu bar visible. Select from the view menu text encoding. Try changing it to unicode.

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Matt
Matt
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Ọ̀nà àbáyọ Tí a Yàn

looks to me like the senders mail system is not encoding the message correctly.

Press F10 to make the menu bar visible. Select from the view menu text encoding. Try changing it to unicode.

bodhiwat
bodhiwat Ìbéèrè olóhun
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Matt, your a hero, thank you