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Kirillic letters and umlauts are coded as questionmarks after update

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Suddenly all my kirillic letters and Umlauts appear as questionmarks when sent I set everything to utf-8 coding, Unicode where possible, ticked and unticked boxes, no Change can anyboday help?

Version: Thunderbird/60.6.1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Suddenly all my kirillic letters and Umlauts appear as questionmarks when sent I set everything to utf-8 coding, Unicode where possible, ticked and unticked boxes, no Change can anyboday help? Version: Thunderbird/60.6.1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1257405

Tools/Options/Advanced/General/Config. editor, double-click mail.strictly_mime to true, OK to close Options.

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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1257405

Tools/Options/Advanced/General/Config. editor, double-click mail.strictly_mime to true, OK to close Options.

thank you seems to work - hurray

Yes, great! This did the trick - I remember having seen a similar solution but having been unable to find where to look for the "strictly mime" exactly. THANKS!

This seems to work - very many thanks for I have searched hours to solve the problem of question marks scattered throughout my emails

I have the same problem, changed as instructed to "true". Still not showing properly. Any other suggestions?

hnz787 said

I have the same problem, changed as instructed to "true". Still not showing properly. Any other suggestions?

Did you restart TB after the change? Don't know if it matters, but check that under Tools/Options/Display/Formatting/Advanced... that Text Encoding for Outgoing Mail is set to Unicode (UTF-8),