Hi, I just made a test with a simplified Chinese mail a received in PM for OS X. I saved it as text, started TextEdit and opened the saved document in TextEdit. All characters were displayed correctly, both in the subject line and in the text, as well as the "from" and "to" etc. in latin characters. Copy and paste from TextEdit into FileMaker (FM 4 under Classic) is also ok.
Apart from that, it is often enough a crux to receive Chinese mails from WIN users. Sometimes the subject line is not displayed correctly, sometimes the text, sometimes neither of them. Some mails are ok. One of my hypotheses is that if people use web mail the chance that characters are displayed correctly is rather small whereas if they use a mail program the chance is better. Regards, Martin Rüttenauer TiBook 867 . PM 4.2.1 DE . OS X 10.2.6 ---- Mail von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] am: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 22:13:00 +0800 >Hi, I receive successfully emails with mixed encoding, (traditional >Chinese and English) however as I export them something goes wrong >and all the 2bites Chars become Question marks <?>. >This is really awful as I need to read the Chinese words (obviously). >I'm using Panther and I have the Chinese language selected as second >language .... >I am aware that Apple yet didn't find a way to successfully interact >with Windows based 2bytes text. >In many ways system 9 works better, at least for me. >Example: If I find an interesting page in Traditional Chinese, I >enable Classic, open Simple Text, and paste the page in that >application, then I change the Geneva default font to any Chinese >font and the Chinese words appear magically. Same if I copy any >e-mail from PowerMail and past it in Simple Text. After Saving the >new file in Sys 9, opening it in any text editor in OSX my Chinese >text is there. >If I paste the very same text to Text-Edit, or Tex-Edit in Panther I >get different kind of garbage. This happens no mettar how I set my >preferences in these programs (plain text, RTF, Unicode ecc.) >I can paste some emails in Word X and they will keep the 2 Bytes. I >installed a Chinese Plug in which allows me to detect 2 Bytes >encoding and allow me to select the Asian font I prefer. When I >successfully paste from Power Mail however (only a scarce percentage >of the mails I receive keep Chinese in Word) The fonts option always >tells me the text uses Osaka, a japanese font. I can read it fine, >but i know the email was encoded in Traditional Chinese and not in >Japanese ... >I also tried to paste in Word the whole tab file generated by the >Powermail converter, but Word converts all line feeds in carriage >return so I can no longer export the file with the little Chinese I >can rescue in File Maker ... > > >Well it is complex, any hints highly welcome > > > >Dante from Taiwan > > >BTW > > >is there a weblink with the previous posting? The main web site only >lead to a subscription page ...
