Why is a special character Â inserted into my drafts?

After I save a draft, and then return later to finish it.... I frequently (more times than not) find that Thunderbird has inserted a ton of Â characters in the email, all over. Usually at the end of every sentence. Often the are 3 in a row, with spaces between: Â Â Â
My Character Encoding, inbound and outbound: Weatern ISO-8859-1
Any thoughts? Thank you kindly.

I've been having the same problem recently. Checked the character encoding and it was set for utf-8. After several tests, I found that setting incoming and outgoing encoding to Western ISO-8850-1 solved the problem.

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