[IMail Forum] Japanese characters revisited

[Jonas Fornander]

I while ago I posted an issue with Japanese characters when using webmail. I have some more info from the client now. Does anyone know how I can solve this issue. It's fairly important so any help is really appreciated.   <quote> I tried sending emails from the webmail, and they were garbled, but I changed the encoding to Shift-JIS, then they are readable. Every time one of our clients gets email from web mail, they have to change the encoding in mail software. This is the problem for the client. And they are thinking the problem is crucial. I checked content-type in the header, and the charset was ISO-8859-1. It is not for Japanese character, I guess this is the cause of the problem. Usually Japanese email uses ISO-2022-JP. It is safest way to send an email in Japanese. Shift JIS is 8bit, so mail software can't handle the encoding well. And actually Shift-JIS can't handle ASCII. On the other hand, ISO-2022-JP is 7bit and can handle ASCII. Do you think it is easily possible to change the encoding to ISO-2022-JP from Shift-JIS when the software sends emails in Japanese? </quote>   Jonas Fornander System Administrator Netwood Communications,LLC Tel: 310-442-1530 Fax: 310-820-3125 "Find Out Why We're Better" ************************************* Now offering Fiber Optic Internet service throughout the continental USA. Speeds start at 5Mbps/2Mbps. Go to www.netwood.net and fill in a prequal request. ************************************* "Home is where my computer is"