On 4/6/01 10:14 AM, "Eric Hildum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> 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.
Japanese email is typically encoded as JIS, so it would have to be able to
handle JIS. Most text editors would probably expect SJIS.
Dan
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