On transport, non-ASCII chars are encoded as shown in the example you provided. Your mail client decodes them back into a user readable format, i. e. the original non-ASCII chars. This is a rather general fact and completely normal.
That said, could you please provide more specific information about your setup and where James is involved in there? Another question: When you read this very email, do you see correctly the umlaute you sent out? => Gl=FCckwunsch! .. it should be Glückwunsch. If not, it could be an issue with your email client's configuration. On 2/20/06, Norman Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi i have stragne problems with some special chars. > > When i get an email with ß or ü for example i only get something like : > > > What can be the problem ? > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]