Mozilla Thunderbird displaying everything in Chinese type font.

Headtime | 15:19 Thu 27th Apr 2006 | Technology

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I have just installed Mozilla Thunderbird, as my Outlook Express has stoppped working.

The trouble is it displays all emails in a Chinese/Japanese/Korean type font. Meaning I have to choose "View" > "Character Encoding" > "Western (Iso-8859-1) for each message, to turn it back into English.

I've gone into "Tools" > "Options" > "Display" and made sure that the option to ensure incoming and out going messages were set to display in the Western Iso font were checked. They were.

As an experiment I unchecked the boxes for the above options, and now some of my emails are in the Western font, whilst others remain in chinese!

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

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Ralph

Just a shot in the dark....... what happens if you set View, Character Encoding, Auto-Detect to Off, then set the character encoding to Western (ISO blah blah) one last time(!)?

Headtime

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Sadly, Ralph this does not help. Thanks. Anyone else got an idea.

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