こんいちは, you just open the message and go to message->encoding and try to find out the right one. Somtimes some mail-servers add a wrong encoding, because the mail client doesn't write the header correctly. Usually the mail clients are making the problem, not the server.
All the best Matthias ----------------------------------------------- Admilon Consulting GmbH http://www.admilon.com iChat/AIM: MatKoyasan Tel. +81-736-56-3905 ----------------------------------------------- Am/On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 10:27:46 +0900 schrieb/wrote Shell Olson: >Ah, Matthias-san, I see you live in Japan! >I've just changed to shift-jis and have e-mailed a couple of friends to >see if they'll try one more time, to find out if it works. >Anyway, you're saying that the problem is not originating with my Mac or >with PM, but possibly their mail-server? >If the shift-jis doesn't work for someone, and I get a nonsense message, >do I manually do Mail-Text Encoding just with the message selected in >the in-tray, or do I highlight the text? or something else? >Thanks very much >Shell > >>Good evening Olson-san, >> >>well, the problem is the encoding of those messages. Some Japanese mail- >>clients don't send an encoding, probably those programmers think >>Japanese is the only and one language in the world.... you know that >>mindset, I guess ;-) >> >>I set my encoding for unknown messages to Japanese (shift-jis). >>With some messages you have to set the encoding manualy (under message >>text encoding). >> >>All the best >> >>Matthias >> >>----------------------------------------------- >>Admilon Consulting GmbH >>http://www.admilon.com >>iChat/AIM: MatKoyasan >>Tel. +81-736-56-3905 >>----------------------------------------------- >> >>Am/On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 21:16:11 +0900 schrieb/wrote Shell Olson: >> >>>I started using Powermail about 6 years ago simply because I wanted to >>>be able to read and write in Japanese, but have my menus still in >>>English. I couldn't find any other e-mail program that would do that. >>>Japanese software would make things very difficult for me, and probably >>>wouldn't run on my US operating system, anyway. >>>Still, PM it doesn't work for everyone I'd like to communicate with. >>>There are some people from whom I receive seemingly random characters >>>(I'm sure they aren't, but whatever they are seems irrelevant). Maybe >>>Hiro can help me? Or does this problem occur with other languages, too? >>>Certainly one source is users of hotmail.com but it is not limited to them. >>>It is really frustrating not to be able to communicate with some people >>>via e-mail if they aren't comfortable with English. Every time I >>>upgrade I keep hoping that it will take care of the problem, but it >>>never does. >>>If I change something--such as my character set for "undefined incoming >>>characters"--could that take care of it? I have tried occasionally, but >>>it never seems to help. >>> >>>If you know something about this, and can help me in relatively simple >>>language (my master's in computing pre-dates the Internet), or can >>>direct me to somewhere else where I can find help, I'd be incredibly >>>grateful. I hate bringing in a question on this basic level, but there >>>seems to be no other way to get support--the down side of using PM for me. >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Shell in Tokyo >>>iBook G3 OS X 10.4.5 PowerMail 5.2.3 >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > >
