Wed, 12 May 2004 13:08:05 +0200 PowerMail Engineering wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>treid to send myself chinese emails from different internet cafe here >>in Taiwan, and often I got a percentage of unreadable messages although >>the message was exactly the same. > >Look for the "content-type" field in the full headers of the message. If >it does not specify the charset used, then the message does not conform >to the standard (unless if it contains only ascii characters). The >problem must be reported to the mail client or webmail used to send the >message. I'd never used the Full Header under the View menu and realise what a great aid it is. We send and receive a lot of messages in Japanese and sometimes have problems similar to the internet cafe user in Taiwan. Most Japanese messages are OK but a percentage are received as question marks: ? or other strange characters. In most cases this problem is solved by clicking on the Reply to or Forward buttons in the toolbar or Mail menu. The Japanese characters magically appear in the new message window. Occasionally characters can't be converted to Japanese in which cases we normally ask recipients to send messages as file attachments. Generally though this seems much less of a problem in OSX than OS9. These solutions will hopefully work with Chinese characters. >However in PowerMail, you can manually change the charset of such >messages from the Mail menu. You mean by doing a Reply to Sender. In Preferences/Character Sets, Chinese has 7 options and Japanese 4. If the setting is for example Big 5 (Chinese) and ISO-2022 (Japanese), which are probably the most popular, and you are sent messages in a different character set is there anything you can do about it if the characters remain as gobbledy gook (unreadable) even after your best efforts at conversion. Regards, Brian
