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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
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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

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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
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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
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Matt, your a hero, thank you