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GrC
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Many times the emails I get have many letters 'A' with a ^ above at the end of the sentence. I can't seem to correct this. Any help please. I am using the latest version.
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Latest version of what?
What sort of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
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Make sure that you have Unicode selected and not a Western or Windows encoding.
View -> Text Encoding
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(OT--Terry Pratchett must have been psychic.)
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Re: Strange

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malliz wrote:Latest version of what?
In which program are you seeing this? Thunderbird or Firefox?
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Re: Strange

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Sorry its in Thunderbird. Also, text encoding is grayed out.
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Moving to Thunderbird Support...
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(Always choose the "Custom" Install.)
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Where are you seeing that grayed out? What menu path?
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Under View it was grayed out but after a re-install its ok. But text encoding was set to western and when I change it to Unicode the 'A's go away but when I restart Tbird it reverts back to Western.
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Re: Strange

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See if this article is helpful -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Preferences_not_saved
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The article keeps referring to a file named prefs.js. I don't have it. All I have is a file named prefs.
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Windows hides some file extensions by default.
Among them .html and .ini and .js and .txt and you may only see a file name without file extension.
You can check the file extension (type) in the properties of the file in Windows Explorer via the right-click context menu.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders
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Re: Strange

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I see that prefs is the right folder. I deleted it because Dan replied with a link that said Tbird would create a new one which it did. But it still always defaults to western even if I choose Unicode.
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Re: Strange

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So, no one has any answers????? Thanks anyway
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