chainge your character encoding (under View) to unicode

It helps but the program keeps defaulting back to Western, dso I have to do this EACH time to go VIEW > Character > Unicode?

Never was a problem in the past

Is this also a compatabiity problem Different systems Window / Mac?

here you can change your standard settings

It is a good question on standard settings but specifdically what?

With the consistent updates of Firefox and Thunderbird for security and enhancement I am not sure what is left as "standard sttings" or what (or where) these are.

So you must have something specifically in mind or a range of thoughts- tell me so I can investigate.

Each time we get changes now we then have to update Adobe Shockwave and Flash Player and these keep adjusting.

Recognizing what is standard. I think besides installing the latest release, once in a while we seem obliged to reinstall the program itself so standard as you can imagine gets lost somewhere.

Most of your personal standards is kept in your profile along with your mailboxes. This is (normally) not changed in an update

The program files in C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\ is updated

Your profile is in your user directory under C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\<profile name>\ The equal goes for Firefox

That's the places to backup

Ok but those specif standard setting you were asking about, in relations to reducing garbling messges would be?

There is no standard every language has its own. It's also a question of the senders prefs. Mostly western and Unicode works.