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Re: Japanese language email problem (cont'd)



HI, all;
If you eager to use Japanese in e-mail, please put on the header below :
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp
You used like below :
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

Thank you.

At 14:47 10/06/96 +0900, Dennis McMurchy wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I posted some Japanese text to the list yesterday and asked if it
>was readable or not.  It was, although I now realize that Windoze 
>and Mac people can probably only read new-JIS (and not EUC) encoded
>mail.
>
>  However, I still have a problem with my correspondent not being
>able to read the Japanese text he gets from me (although he runs
>Windoze.for.95Sheep.J and can apparently read other Japanese language
>mail, e.g. from his provider).  
>
>  He sent back some of the (new-JIS) stuff that I had sent him, and
>it looks like this:
>
>>   _$BKLL=M-5{!$B6L>`*rJ!#rJG7Bg!$ITCNB6Q\@example.com$Li!#2=<)`*D;!$B6L>_(B
>
>  This looks just like what Steve Turnbull was talking about when he
>wrote:
>
>        If it's mojibake romaji, look for )B at the beginning and
>        $B at the end.  This means that the escape characters
>        (0x1B) are getting stripped out.  
>
>  Does anyone have any idea how to solve the problem?  (My
>correspondent runs Win95J on Mitsubishi DOS/V hardware.  I'm afraid  I
>don't know right now what mailer he is using, but he has mentioned
>MS-IME95.  As for providers, I use gol.com, he is using a local
>Kyushu-kundari new and cheap provider called try-net.or.jp, which might
>be suspect - but remember, he can read their Japanese language mail to
>him).  What does it all mean, if anything ?-) 
>
>
>Dennis McMurchy, 
>Tojinmachi, Fukuoka
>
>
>
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