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I am using thunderbird 31.1.2 and have lot of problems : In the incoming mails some times Iam getting special charactersl like " Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â

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I am using thunderbird 31.1.2 and have lot of problems : In the incoming mails some times Iam getting special charactersl like "              " etc and some times â€â€â€â€â€â€ in between the text which is very much annoying. Character encoding used by me is WESTERN ISO 8859-1 and in tools>options>display > formatting>advanced >fonts encoding i have unchecked allo messages to use other fonts but still same problem. So pls somebody help me out.

I am using thunderbird 31.1.2 and have lot of problems : In the incoming mails some times Iam getting special charactersl like "              " etc and some times â€â€â€â€â€â€ in between the text which is very much annoying. Character encoding used by me is WESTERN ISO 8859-1 and in tools>options>display > formatting>advanced >fonts encoding i have unchecked allo messages to use other fonts but still same problem. So pls somebody help me out.

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moving this thread to the Thunderbird questions queue

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What character encoding is used in the message you receive? You can check by inspecting the headers. View (Alt-V) - Headers - All