RE: help: chinese hanzi characters in webmail

Ken Wong wrote:

> Outlook on which platform? Win 98, 2k, or XP? 

I see the same behaviour in Outlook (not OE) 2000 and 2003 on Win 2000 and
Win XP-SP2 respectively.  I haven't tried another client, as Outlook is the
standard in our group.

> I forgot to mention that
> UTF-8 will only work on XP and maybe an upgraded 2k. Win 98 and below
> can't really handle Unicode that well. Older Outlooks (97, 6.0)  also
> aren't that happy with it.

Right.  Thanks but I don't think it is the issue.

> Other than that, it sounds like an encoding problem -  Outlook isn't
> recognizing the proper encoding for the mail. Try sending me chinese
> emails from both your webmail and outlook and let me see if I can spot
> anything.

Splendid, thanks.

/src


> On Friday 23 April 2004 11:24, Simon Cousins wrote:
> > > 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:
> >
> > 亲爱的王琳：
> >
> > Etc...
> >
> > In other character sets the same line appears as:
> >
> > Ç×°®µÄÍõÁÕ£º
> >
> > Help!
> >
> > /src
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