The Bat! is such a wonderful mailer, I'm back to using it after being away for several months, even though I still haven't solved one of the biggest problems. Much of the e-mail I receive each day is in Japanese, and I haven't figured out how to view Japanese messages in the Japanese version of Windows XP, short of using a decoder program like NJStar or KanjiKit, which for various reasons are unacceptable (they add instability to the system and mess up the display in other programs).
What I'm doing as a work-around is redirecting all mail with iso-2022-jp in the header to another account, and opening that in EdMax, which is a Japanese mail client. I notice that Shift-JIS is supported. In fact, I got a SPAM mail in Shift-JIS that I could actually read. But use of Shift-JIS is deprecated on the Internet, and most Japanese messages are in iso-2022-jp or, increasingly, in UTF-8 (Unicode). So why does The Bat! support Shift-JIS but not the other encodings? Or is there some way to get The Bat! to decode those messages? I don't think it's possible with XLAT tables. -- John De Hoog, Tokyo http://dehoog.org Using The Bat! 1.61 on Windows XP 5.1 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
