PowerMail Engineering / 03.11.16 / 4:37 AM wrote: >When you export to unix mailbox format, the messages are exported >according to your settings in the "character sets" preference pane >(whatever charset they where originally using). The problem is that all 8 >bit character sets are encoded with base64, so they are not viewable in a >text editor. I think the only 7 bit encodings available for simplified >chinese are ISO-2022-CN and UTF7, unfortunately it seems that TextEdit >can read files using these charsets...
Jéröme, Very interesting, but am confused now. I understand Unix Mail format will drop the first bit, but why it won't make it to EUC encoding as unix native encoding is? I just tried it, and confirmed it made it to ISO2022JP instead of EUC-JP. I just want to know why :-) Meanwhile, if I export as tab-separate text, the first bit turns Shift- JIS on, but not UTF-8. To me, this is PM doing but not OS level. This OSX native encoding issue has been puzzling since Jaguar. Cheetah was EUC as BSD is supposed to be. Since Jaguar, java compiler bring error message in Shift-JIS. I'd think this is because of the compatibility on all three platforms, Unix, Wintel, and Mac. So, if PM exports to tab-separate Chinese text, I'd expect it would be 8- bit GB, no? -- - Hiro [PROTECTED] <[PROTECTED]>
