email: special characters problem

[fredman]

hallo,

can anybody tell me why the sugar email client can not show special characters?

the following text:
ä
ö
ü

appears in sugar email the following:
?FONT>
?ONT>
?ONT>

i user version 4.2.1c
is this problem known? i could not find anything in the forum about that.

[fredman]

the wrong text is being inserted into the database.
can anybody tell me, wehre ich can find the code
which is fetching the emails from my provider and is inserting them into table 'emails' ?

thank you for your help!