Yahoo and upper-bit-set character encoding

I'm sending/receiving e-mails with German content to a user with a
Yahoo.co.uk e-mail address (no idea what software she is using; the Message
IDs are in the form .JavaMail.yahoo@...), and every time she
quotes one of my messages, all the non-ASCII characters in the German text
get translated to a pair of upper-bit-set characters - e.g. o-umlaut becomes
CHR$(195) plus CHR$(182).   Obviously this makes communication of foreign
text extremely difficult....

I don't know what she is seeing at her end;  she hasn't complained, but then
neither have I!  Is there any setting I need to adjust in Messenger (I'm
using StrongED OLE rather than the internal e-mail editor) which will encode
8-bit text better, or is the problem at her end?

-- 
Harriet Bazley                     ==  Loyaulte me lie ==

Mate, this parrot wouldn't VOOM if you put four million volts through it!

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