>> I can archive messages by simply dragging folders of messages to another
>> place on my hard disk. These are saved as an "MBOX" formatted text file. I
>> would like to be able to open up this text file to search for a particular
>> e-mail, without having to drag the folder back into Entourage. I can do this
>> with Tex-Edit (for example). However, I have quite a few messages written in
>> Japanese. The Japanese text becomes "mojibake" (scrambled characters) when
>> opened in a text editor after archiving, though it is formatted correctly in
>> Entourage, even after re-dragging the archive back in.
>>
>> 1. How can I open the archived file in a text editor and retain Japanese
>> text?
>>
>> 2. Can MBOX formatted files be converted to readable by a database program?
>
> The mbox file has the raw message sources, which is why the Japanese text is
> mojibake. You can save individual messages as styled text files which you
> would be able to search, but there's no way to export a batch of messages
> this way, or to import them. I recommend leaving your mail in your
> database.
Try registering your text editing application as Japanese, then open the
mbox file. Select all the text, and apply a Japanese font (if one is not
already applied for you). This might let you do what you want.
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