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 >> >> >> > > >
