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When I copy and paste or forward a message in Spanish arrives distorted because of the accents and ñ. How can I fix that?

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marite7
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When I copy and paste or forward a message in Spanish arrives distorted because of the accents and ñ. How can I fix that?

When I copy and paste or forward a message in Spanish arrives distorted because of the accents and ñ. How can I fix that?

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sfhowes
sfhowes
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Are you sending through a Yahoo-type account (AOL, AT&T, Verizon, Rogers, Sky etc.)?

marite7
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I have WWindows 7, I use email msn, sbcglobal, gmail. I need to configure Mozilla for the Spanish emails.

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This is what happens, I send it perfect ENTORNO VESPERTINO – Miércoles, 29 de mayo de 2019

and arrives like this: ENTORNO VESPERTINO ??? Mi??rcoles, 29 de mayo de 2019

sfhowes
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SBCGlobal is an AT&T account, i.e. Yahoo, so you probably have to change the mime.strictly_mime preference:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1260169

This fixes double spaces, accented characters etc. being replaced by ??.