RE: help: chinese hanzi characters in webmail

"Simon Cousins" <simon-MTRkitCQmL6jF/[email protected]> Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:24:38 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.beijing.tech
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> by the way the list is publicly available. Just follow the link on our
> website related to the mailing list and you'll find all the emails.
> 
> I guess we ought to change that list title to reflect the truth about it,
> or
> really make it not publicly posted.

Well, so it is!  Personally I think it should not be posted.  I don't like
seeing the flame wars archived.

Anyway, back to the problem at hand.

Outlook seems to have some kind of magic pixie-dust that correctly encodes
Hanzi.  If I send an email from Outlook (in Chinese), I can read it
correctly (in Chinese) in the webmail client.  If I then forward that
message from the webmail client (which still looks okay) back to Outlook,
Outlook displays it as junk!

Driving me crazy.

I tried a suggestion of Ken Wong's (from the "Chinese webpages encoding"
thread on non-technical), but I still have the same unsatisfactory
behaviour: Hanzi, sent from webmail while the browser is encoding in UTF-8,
appears in Outlook as:

&#20146;&#29233;&#30340;&#29579;&#29747;&#65306;

Etc...

In other character sets the same line appears as:

Ç×°®µÄÍõÁÕ£º

Help!

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