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 > > >
