On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Brian Feeney wrote:
> For a practical example: if I choose the menu option
> 'Format->Encoding->Japanese(JIS)'....
That's going to produce an e-mail using the ISO-2022-JP character
encoding.
> ...and send this to a Yahoo account and
> attempt to view this on an MS-IE or Net-Nav browser
> with encoding set to Auto-select, then neither the
> Message nor the Subject is readable (kanji or moji
> characters fail - English characters are ok).
> If I select the Japanese (EUC) option, then the
> message is displayed correctly, but the Subject is
> not.
It sounds like Yahoo doesn't properly support MIME e-mail. I just
sent an e-mail from my keitai to my PC account, and it contained the
following header lines:
Subject: =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCJCIkKyQ1JD8kSiRPGyhC?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp"
Yahoo, if it supported MIME, could deal with turning all of this into
whatever character encoding they want to use for output (UTF-8 would be
an obvious choice).
If this is a yahoo.com account, a yahoo.co.jp account might work better
for you. Or you could try hotmail, which I believe does deal with MIME
e-mail.
cjs
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Received on Fri Oct 24 03:43:56 2003