The url to the report by Robert Eng seems to have been modified in
transit; I've set up a TinyURL bookmark for it:
Tony
On Apr 18, 2005, at 9:24 AM, International & Area Studies Computer
Support wrote:
> I would like to read that article, but I get an error saying I'm not
> authorized to view it.
> I tried Outlook. Still spotty. The same results...looks OK in the
> message, but when the "Reply" button is clicked, the email comes up
> with nonsense in both the subject line and the text of the original
> email.
> I did try the UT-8 character set as well as many other variations.
> Thanks
> Bill
>
> At 01:49 PM 4/15/2005, you 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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