german umlauts with e-mail after installing new system

[Alexander Apprich]

Götz Reinicke wrote:
> Alexander,
> 
> Alexander Apprich schrieb:
> 
>> Goetz,
>>
>> Götz Reinicke wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I recently installed a new e-mail-server using taolinux 4 (RHEL4) and 
>>> got some problems with german umlauts.
>>>
>>> That I tested was sending an e-mail from our webmailsystem twig and 
>>> an other from my thunderbird client.
>>>
>>> I got two diffrent results:
>>>
>>> sending from twig lets the subject (ö, ä, ü) unchanged, the mailtext 
>>> is unreadebel.
>>>
>>> sending from thunderbird changes the subject to strange symbols, the 
>>> mail text is fine.
>>>
>>> I use sendmail.
>>>
>>> Where can I look, for what could be wrong?
>>
>>
>>
>> try in a teminal
>>
>>    export LANG=de_DE
>>
>> then start your mailer and try it again. I had some strange experience
>> w/ the default de_DE.UTF8 and german umlaute...
>>
>> If this fixes your problem, you can change the default LANG in
>>
>>    /etc/sysconfig/118n
> 
> 
> This didn't solve the problem, I still get a mismatch off umlauts and 
> strange characters... :-(
> 

What is checked in View->Character encoding in thunderbird/firefox???

> Regards
> 
> Götz
> 
Alex