Your country/language setting – what Yahoo! Mail calls your “Preferred Content” – can be adjusted by following these steps:

1. Click on your user name which is located at the top of your Yahoo! Mail page, next to the Yahoo! Mail logo. This will open a pull-down menu.
2. Click Edit My Account.
3. This will open a new window in which you will be prompted to re-enter your password. You will then be re-directed to your Yahoo! ID Card.
4. Under "Member Information" in your Yahoo! ID Card, click the Edit link. This will take you to "Member Details."
5. Click on the link next to Preferred Content and from there you can select from a list that best meets your content needs.
6. Click Finished.

Are you seeing garbled characters in a non-US-language email? If so, you can change Yahoo! Mail’s character encoding setting. It’s easy! Here’s how:

1. In the toolbar, click More Actions and select Set Encodings.
2. From the list that appears, select the encoding that matches the message’s content.

Note: Only one character encoding set may be viewed at a time. And in this case, changing your browser’s encoding setting will not work.