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Automatically recognize Unicode in incoming messages?

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Daniel B. Martin
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Some incoming Email messages contain gibberish. To make them readable requires view>text encoding>Unicode. It would be so much better if Thunderbird recognized certain character strings as indicators of Unicode and "shift gears" automatically.

Some incoming Email messages contain gibberish. To make them readable requires view>text encoding>Unicode. It would be so much better if Thunderbird recognized certain character strings as indicators of Unicode and "shift gears" automatically.

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Matt
Matt
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Thunderbird uses the text encoding specified in the email.

Have a look in the message source and I think you will find it is either messing entirely or specifies one of the ancient ANSI code pages.