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Thunderbird emails showing up as Chinese charaters - UTF-16

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Hallo

How to enable UTF-16 in Thunderbird (52.7.0) win 7 x64 email previev?

One of my sender send me html emails wit UTF-16 encoding , if I try to save it to file than open i IE. its working but it's not solution... any idea? I tried few extension but with not good result.

Regards Elev

Hallo How to enable UTF-16 in Thunderbird (52.7.0) win 7 x64 email previev? One of my sender send me html emails wit UTF-16 encoding , if I try to save it to file than open i IE. its working but it's not solution... any idea? I tried few extension but with not good result. Regards Elev

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In the message window: View - Text Encoding - Unicode

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Hi Christ1 Thx for answer, but this solution I have already done without good result. My mistake, that I have not all writen clear.

When I use f.e. windows mail , I see in preview sender name, but not html file attachment, in TB I see "html code" but when saved to file, and view in IE - is ok, but FF or Chr ....html code with "?".

<�html><�head><�meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-16"><�title> BTS<�/title><�/head><�style>table.list{ border-collapse: collapse }<�/style><�!script!> <�body background=" background.gif" bgcolor="#E8EAD8"><�blockquote.........


Regards Elev

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In the main menu bar: View (Alt-V) - Message Body as - Original HTML

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Also tried it

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Hello all\

I think problem is with incomming mail - with HTML email body not displaying if base64 encoded , any idea now?

Reg Elv