The easiest solution is probably to use Netscape Messenger. In
Preferences/Appearance/Fonts, in the 'For the encoding' box choose
'Japanese', then in the 'variable font' and 'fixed font' boxes just
below, choose the Japanese fonts from the list. If you can't find any
Japanese fonts, you will need to install them, or if you are
dual-booting with WinLose you can steal them with the Font Manager in
Mandrake configuration manager. :^{) When you ascertained that things
are installed and configured, then open 'View/Character Set' and choose
one of the Japanese systems listed until one of them works.
Good luck!
Anthony
Gavin wrote:
>
> Help,
> I live in Japan and I sometime receive Mail in japanese, I've installed the
> japanese fonts and re-booted my system, when I tried to read to letter it
> still came out in an unreadable format example:
> B$%^&&*((9##8(
> The whole letter looks something like above, how can I get this letter into
> readable format?? this is very important for me being that I work with
> Japanese. I using the english version of Mandrake 7.2 (2.2.17) Desktop
> version. HELP.. PLEASE
>
> Sincerely,
> Gavin (Japan)
