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I am trying to write a message in English - but Mozilla Thurderbird insists on translating it into Chinese characters. Howe do I stop this? It has never happe

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Out of the blue - my computer has started translating my e-mails (in English) into mandarin characters. How do I stop this?

Out of the blue - my computer has started translating my e-mails (in English) into mandarin characters. How do I stop this?

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That sounds like your email might have an incorrect character set associated with them, or the folder.

On the view menu select text encoding. Then check it is set to unicode.

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That sounds like your email might have an incorrect character set associated with them, or the folder.

On the view menu select text encoding. Then check it is set to unicode.