for checking your textfiles, a good choice is SubEthaEdit, which can be found here: <www.codingmonkeys.de> with this editor you can convert or reinterpret a textfile in different encodings.
But allow me a question, why do you want to export your mails to Filemaker? All the best Matthias ----------------------------------------------- schmidt-systemdevelopment http://www.schmidt-system.com iChat/AIM: MatKoyasan Tel. +31-736-56-3905 ----------------------------------------------- Am/On: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 17:32:10 +0200 schrieb/wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> As I export Traditional email to tab-delimited format I loose totally >> all my Chinese Words. What do I need to do to keep my db encoding >> intact so I can use it properly. > >The "tab delimited" export format uses the system script encoding. So, >you must set your preferred language to chinese in the system >preferences, log out and in, then export to tab delimited format, to get >a file in mac chinese encoding. > >I tried to follow your advice > >Choose Traditional Chines in Panther as main language. Restarted, >exported as tab while everything on my monitor was in Traditional >Chinese, exported to tab my Mailboxes. >Before importing in File Maker Pro I took a look at the generated files >(while still using Traditional Chinese) in Tex-Edit, Word, Text-Edit >and the Chinese looked as plain garbage, while the Latin Words were >fine. >However I imported in File Maker and there was no difference with the >previous import using my Standard Settings. > >> Although my date an time preferences in my Machine are Set to >> dd-mm-year, and I receive my mail in this format. while I export to tab >> delimited for FMP7 the date changes although my preferences in the FMP7 >> are set to read as dd-mm-year. > >I think the tab delimited format is always saved with the american date >format, so you need to use this format if FM to import it. You can >probably change the format after you have imported the data. > >The tab delimited format wants one of the presets, so as I used >Australian for the date (dd-mm-year) but 24 hours for the time The tab >export gave indeed the American format for everything. I learned this >Because the only Chinese part of my export was the date, which follows >the Chinese standard : year-mm-dd (I didn't change anything in the >system prefernce settings once choosing Traditional Chinese as main >language) > >However I can always correct the date in FMP while my Chinese text >simply refuses to appear no matter how I set the sys prefs- > >What am'I doing wrong? > >Dante >
