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Just a guess: Maybe the default font that is used in your OW settings doesn't support the required characters. In the preferences, choose "Appearance*", and for "Font Style:*" i.e. "Safari", not "Default". Better?

* These are translations from the German localization, might be that the items are named differently in the English version.

But still, if that was the case, it probably shouldn't work altogether. It's worth a try, anyway.

Another guess: Maybe hotmail does not use utf8, but some other encoding for displaying the characters. If the server doesn't send the correct encoding, in this case some other browsers are able to guess which encoding is the correct one. (I know Opera can do this; I'm not sure abour FF or Safari.) If this is the case, some experimenting with "View->Text Encoding*" might bring you correct results.

Best regards,

Christian