Re: Japanese characters in Calmail

I have never had luck w/ display and composing japanese or chinese
characters in eudora. Though you can display fine in Eudora if you use
NJStar. I've tried composing messages in japanese w/ Thunderbird w/ no
problem. You just set the encoding to Japanese (think I tried UTF-8 and
it didn't work) before you compose the message.

Outlook was fine too. But i think I found it quite troublesome because
you had to be very careful about how you do the encoding. I believe
there was one for composing message and one for sending? Can't quite
remember. And if you're not careful then it won't work.

nancy

Anthony Roybal wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> Sorry, I missed the first part of the thread and your question
> regarding Eudora. QUALCOMM dropped direct support for Japanese and
> other non-English languages a few years ago.
>
> QUALCOMM lists the following vendor's website for Eudora localized for
> Japanese:
> <http://www.eudora.com/sales/localized.html>
>
> I also happened to find a study done by Robert Y. Eng at the
> University of Redlands regarding sending and receiving email in
> Japanese under Windows. He looked at a variety of email clients; his
> recommended clients were Outlook and Outlook Express:
>
> "Sending and Receiving E-Mail in Japanese under Windows: An Overview"
> <http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/Language/
> japanese_email-summary.html>
>
> As for composing and receiving Japanese using CalMail, have you tried
> the UT-8 character set?
>
> Tony
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 15, 2005, at 1:24 PM, Anthony Roybal wrote:
>
>> Hi Bill,
>>
>> I was able to send and receive messages with "Japanese Kana" and
>> "Traditional Chinese" using Safari on Mac OS X 10.3.8 with Unicode
>> (UT-8) configured for "Reading and Composing' in CalMail webmail. I
>> did not try any of the language specific character encodings.
>>
>> While testing this out I noticed that the drop down menu for language
>> encoding seems to be missing from the CalMail skin on the CalMail
>> webmail application. Could this be the issue? You can get around this
>> by going to "Options" and also setting the "Preferred Character Set"
>> to UT-8 (or other character set), or by switching to the "Simple" or
>> "***" skins, where the drop down menu for language encoding is
>> present in the compose window.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tony
>> Workstation Software Support Group
>>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 15, 2005, at 10:43 AM, International & Area Studies Computer
>> Support wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Bernie
>>> This might be a different case; this is a Korean born visiting
>>> scholar from Japan. I have both Korean and Japanese language packs
>>> installed on her computer. As I mentioned earlier, when she tried
>>> switching the language options in the IE6 options, it got worse.
>>> I tried installing a different web browser, NJStar. No difference.
>>> How about Eudora? It won't translate either.
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> At 08:28 PM 4/14/2005, Bernie Tower wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Bill,
>>>
>>> Did this guy write to consult? I was working on it, but couldn't
>>> make it work either using the CalMail web client. I figured it had
>>> something to do with the web browser itself, although the guy did
>>> say that BearMail does do it. I will continue to look into it.
>>>
>>> Bernie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi
>>> This email concerns use of Calmail on a Win2000 computer using IE6.
>>> Japanese and Korean language options have been added in the Regional
>>> settings within Windows.
>>> I've found the Japanese character set in Calmail Options-Text
>>> encoding, which allows one to read and compose in Japanese, but it
>>> isn't completely working. Messages won't send and the headings all
>>> come out as nonsense-this is according to the user who is from Japan
>>> (and not because I can't read Japanese).
>>> There is also a language option in IE where the user added Japanese
>>> and Korean. This seems to have made things worse.
>>> So, the message comes in to Calmail, the header is nonsense, and
>>> the message reads fine. When a reply is being composed, the
>>> original text appears as nonsense, though the text being typed comes
>>> out fine.
>>> Anybody know how to get all the text in Japanese?
>>> Thanks
>>> Bill Gross
>>>
>>>
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