Howard, I have not done any converting of this type, but hopefully these links can help. :-) Our development team wrote their own APIs (in C/C++) based on the specs from the unicode.org site.
Maybe the following links may help: http://dataconv.org/apps_mail.html This contains some programs you can download. Just do a "search this page" for "Chinese" and you'll see the 2 that are listed. I also found these two links, but not sure how helpful they will be. http://seba.ulyssis.org/thesis/howto-mail.php (some info that may or may not offer additional "insights") http://seba.ulyssis.org/thesis/download.php (some programs that can be dowloaded to do the conversion) This last link might prove the most useful, but I didn't go very far with this one. :-P http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/InternationalisationUTF8 I found these doing a "google" search on the following text: processing chinese emails using Perl converting chinese emails using Perl The general impression I got by glancing at these, is that you have to set something within the mail program itself to ensure that the characters do not get garbled. But I think it depends on the mail client you use. Outlook typically handles any conversion of text automatically, since Win2K and later already store things in UniCode format. For example, my buddy's fiance sends him emails written in Shift-JIS Gothic (Japanese) and Outlook automatically converts these to english for him. Since it's already stored as UniCode, MS simply determines the correct codepage based on the machine's locale setting. I have not tried this with Chinese. I seem to remember a buddy in Hong Kong stating that Chinese was a slightly different "animal" and that Windows does not maybe do this automatically with that language set. Not sure, so might be worth researching a little. Hopefully that may help get you going (assuming you haven't already come across these). - Michael -----Original Message----- From: Bullock, Howard A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 6:16 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Generating email in different languages (Net::SMTP and Simplified Chinese)? I have been struggling with this for weeks and am no closer to a solution. Any insights would be appreciated. I was trying to use a Unicode text file written in Simplified Chinese using Notepapd.exe as part of the content of an email generated via Net::SMTP. 1) Will Net::SMTP be able to accomplish this task? 2) Should I be using a different mail module? If so, which one? 3) What do I need to be aware of when processing Unicode characters? 4) Does anyone have an example that would be useful in this situation? _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
