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artmanphoto · 7 Dec 2018, 04:32 AM

I am using Thunderbird version 60.3.2 32 bit on a Windows 7 Professional machine. Sometimes but not all the time when I receive a message from someone there will be strange characters in the message. I wish there was a way to attach a screenshot but I don't think this board allows that.

I know this is probably an encoding issue. The Thunderbird encoding is set to Western. If I set it to Unicode the strange characters change to different strange characters. Most of the time I don't have this problem, just some of the time. It is interesting, a person sent me an several emails and some of them are OK but some of them have the strange characters.

Is this caused by my mail client (Thunderbird) of the mail client used by the person sending me the message?

Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Thanks very much.

7 Dec 2018, 04:32 AM	#1
artmanphoto Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Kansas City - USA Posts: 177	Strange characters in received Thunderbird message I am using Thunderbird version 60.3.2 32 bit on a Windows 7 Professional machine. Sometimes but not all the time when I receive a message from someone there will be strange characters in the message. I wish there was a way to attach a screenshot but I don't think this board allows that. I know this is probably an encoding issue. The Thunderbird encoding is set to Western. If I set it to Unicode the strange characters change to different strange characters. Most of the time I don't have this problem, just some of the time. It is interesting, a person sent me an several emails and some of them are OK but some of them have the strange characters. Is this caused by my mail client (Thunderbird) of the mail client used by the person sending me the message? Can anyone tell me how to fix this? Thanks very much. Last edited by artmanphoto : 7 Dec 2018 at 04:37 AM.