Text encoding ISO 8859-7 or Windows 1253 - Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi to all
I live in Greece, When I try to read some email with the stock program, instead of greek characters I have ????????.
These characters are encoded with ISO 8859-7, or Windows 1253. Is it possible to add something to the tab to read those emails?
If I cut those emails save as text, and try to read with Thinkfree office ( coming with the stock rom ) when I choose the 2 above encodings , I can read the Greek letters.
Thanks in advance

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sweeper5150 said:
But when she sends an SMS in Russian or email it comes out as ????? ????. I am hoping the people here can help.
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As a native Russian too, may i ask you a question?
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