Display of Chinese characters in PowerMail

[Martin Ruettenauer]

The iPod touch and iPhone have a Chinese character handwriting system
for the touchpad. One can choose traditional or simplified characters.
Text can be written either in NOTES or in MAIL and then sent by email.
When received with Mail.app on a Mac (I tried a G5 and an Intel Mac),
the display of the characters is correct. 

In PowerMail, however, only some characters are displayed correctly,
others show black boxes, question marks or roman characters. I tried
different settings in PM without success. This behaviour is shown for
traditional characters. Simplified characters so far showed no problems.

Any ideas that could help?
Martin

PM 6.0.2 German  | MacOS 10.5.6  |  iMac G5

OT remark: It is somehow astonishing to me that neither Apple nor a
third party seems to offer a Chinese handwriting system for Mac OS X.
There has been one for OS 9 and G3 processors. I still run a blueberry
iMac, exclusively for that purpose. I could live with the iPhone
workaround but would love to receive those emails with PowerMail.

Re: Display of Chinese characters in PowerMail

[Michael J . Hußmann]

Martin Ruettenauer (wu...@bridgemail.de) wrote:

> OT remark: It is somehow astonishing to me that neither Apple nor a
> third party seems to offer a Chinese handwriting system for Mac OS X.
> There has been one for OS 9 and G3 processors. I still run a blueberry
> iMac, exclusively for that purpose. I could live with the iPhone
> workaround but would love to receive those emails with PowerMail.

Wasn't that announced for Snow Leopard just a few days ago at the WWDC?

- Michael


Michael J. Hußmann

E-mail: mich...@michael-hussmann.de
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Re: Display of Chinese characters in PowerMail

[Rene Merz]

Martin Ruettenauer wrote:

>PM 6.0.2 German  | MacOS 10.5.6  |  iMac G5
>
>OT remark: It is somehow astonishing to me that neither Apple nor a
>third party seems to offer a Chinese handwriting system for Mac OS X.
>There has been one for OS 9 and G3 processors. I still run a blueberry
>iMac, exclusively for that purpose. I could live with the iPhone
>workaround but would love to receive those emails with PowerMail.
>
What about this:

Coming September 09


"
Innovative Chinese character input.
Until Snow Leopard, if you wanted to enter Chinese characters on a
computer, you had to type in the phonetic spelling of Chinese words and
the computer would convert them into proper Chinese characters. Snow
Leopard offers a breakthrough new way to enter characters: You draw them
right on the Multi-Touch trackpad in your Mac notebook. They'll appear
on the screen in a new input window, which recommends characters based
on what you drew and lets you choose the right one. The input window
even offers suggestions for subsequent characters based on what you chose.
"

Re: Display of Chinese characters in PowerMail

[Rene Merz]

Martin Ruettenauer wrote:

>In PowerMail, however, only some characters are displayed correctly,
>others show black boxes, question marks or roman characters. I tried
>different settings in PM without success. This behaviour is shown for
>traditional characters. Simplified characters so far showed no problems.
>
>Any ideas that could help?
>Martin
>
>PM 6.0.2 German  | MacOS 10.5.6  |  iMac G5

Maybe the Traditional Chinese Font is not correctly installed or not
activated?
Have a look at:

Re: database problems

[PowerMail Engineering]

H Ronald Riggs wrote:

>My computer crashed and now it says "Your database file has not the
>expected format" and it asks if I want to convert it. But conversion
>fails. Any help would be very helpful.   Thanks.

First, make a backup of your PowerMail database folder.
Then press the command and option keys while launching PowerMail, and
try some of checkboxes of the first group.
If that does not help, try to remove the "Address Database" file from
your PowerMail folder (in case your message database file is safe but
another database file is corrupted), and relaunch PowerMail. If you
still can't start PowerMail, and an "Address Database.old" file is also
present, remove it also.
Then you can try the same thing for the "Server-side Database" or "Setup
Database".
Then, if a "Message Database.old" file is present in the backup you just
made, remove the "Message Database" and "Message Database.old" file from
your current folder, and replace them with a copy of the "Message
Database.old" file from the backup, and remove the ".old" extension.


Jérôme - CTM Engineering


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