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grard
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Text sent, with "text encoding = Unicode" : Véronique

Text received as it appears in the reply of the recipient : V�ronique.

And when I click "Reply" on this answer, the "text encoding" is set to "Vietnamese" ! I try with several recipients, the same problem appears, so I understand that it comes from me.

Thanks in advance

Text sent, with "text encoding = Unicode" : Véronique Text received as it appears in the reply of the recipient : V�ronique. And when I click "Reply" on this answer, the "text encoding" is set to "Vietnamese" ! I try with several recipients, the same problem appears, so I understand that it comes from me. Thanks in advance

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Matt
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The issue I think will be one of 7 bit encoding Vs 8 bit encoding.

What mail provider are you sending through and what is your reply coming from.

grosep
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Clarification of original problem I submitted reply comes from pop.aol.com message sent using smtp.aol.com

Modified by grosep

Matt
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and AOL now appear to be using yahopo's broken mail infrastructure...

Change the config editor preference to mail.strictly_mime = true

It is taking the comparability of your mail beck about a decade, and you might get issues from other mail users. It is not a silver bullet.

Your other choice is to move to a mail provider that is living in the same decade as the rest of use. At this point in Time I think GMX may well be the best provider out there.