Search Support

Avoid support scams. We will never ask you to call or text a phone number or share personal information. Please report suspicious activity using the “Report Abuse” option.

Learn More

Lolu chungechunge lwabekwa kunqolobane. Uyacelwa ubuze umbuzo omusha uma udinga usizo.

Kirillic letters and umlauts are coded as questionmarks after update

  • 6 uphendule
  • 4 zinale nkinga
  • 32 views
  • Igcine ukuphendulwa ngu sfhowes

more options

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

Isisombululo esikhethiwe

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.

Funda le mpendulo ngokuhambisana nalesi sihloko 👍 1

All Replies (6)

more options

Isisombululo Esikhethiwe

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.

more options

thank you seems to work - hurray

more options

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!

more options

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

more options

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

more options

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),