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jjforums
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problem between thunderbird and googlegroups

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version: 3.17
problem: accents don't appear in google groups page

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i've tried with webmail (gmail) and other program (outlook), and it's fine with them.

only with thunderbird this problem happens.
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Re: problem between thunderbird and googlegroups

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Moving to Thunderbird Support. No bug has been identified.

It's probably a problem with your Character Encoding. View>Character Encoding. Try Western or Unicode.
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Re: problem between thunderbird and googlegroups

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Look like Portuguese, which western (iso-8859-1) should have no problem displaying.

I usually set view -> character encoding -> western (iso-8859-1) plus view -> character encoding -> auto detect -> universal.
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Re: problem between thunderbird and googlegroups

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But these are the default here, I think it's a problem of google groups too because the "new" google groups show the accents correctly. I tried what you said but doesn't work. Another ideia?
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Re: problem between thunderbird and googlegroups

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I sent a message with some Portuguese text from Gmail webmail to one of my accounts and had no problem displaying it in Thunderbird using the settings I described. The raw message source :

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Truedomain-Domain: gmail.com
X-Truedomain-SPF: Pass
X-Truedomain-DKIM: Pass (TrueDKIM)
X-Truedomain-ID: 062A78501016B746B9EB2A32DF0CF5D2
X-Truedomain: M-Accepted (DKIM matches From)

esteja ciente de suas pr=F3prias limita=E7=F5es
como vai voc=EA !?
Qual =E9 o seu nome?
Voc=EA fala ingl=EAs?
(N=E3o) Compreendo. / (N=E3o) Entendo.
Tudo bem / 'T=E1 bom.
Onde est=E1 / Onde est=E3o... ?

was displayed as:

esteja ciente de suas próprias limitações
como vai você !?
Qual é o seu nome?
Você fala inglês?
(Não) Compreendo. / (Não) Entendo.
Tudo bem / 'Tá bom.
Onde está / Onde estão... ?

Using the config editor in tools -> options -> advanced -> general I found intl.charset.detector was set to universal_charset_detector and mailnews.view_default_charset was set to ISO-8859-1. I've also got intl.charsetmenu.mailview.cache set to UTF-8, ISO-8859-15, GB2312, windows-1252, ISO-2022-JP but I don'[t know if that has any effect. That seems to just specify what character sets should be cached.
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Re: problem between thunderbird and googlegroups

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problem: accents don't appear in google groups page
only with thunderbird this problem happens.

Just to be clear, do you have this problem with email messages in Thunderbird or just with newsgroups? Google Groups supports both Usenet newsgroups and non-Usenet groups that are more similar to mailing lists (not accessible via NNTP), calling both of them Google Groups. Thunderbird doesn't support Google Groups - it supports email, newsgroups and rss/blogs.
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Re: problem between thunderbird and googlegroups

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The problem is just with the google groups, in Thunderbird is everything ok, but my messagens in google groups sent using Thunderbird got accents problem.
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Re: problem between thunderbird and googlegroups

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Then check that you're configured to send messages using "Western ISO-8859-1" in tools -> options -> display -> formatting -> advanced
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Re: problem between thunderbird and googlegroups

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Like this?

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Re: problem between thunderbird and googlegroups

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Yes.
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