One can't really diagnose this unless you send the headers of
the problem mail, so we can see how OE is indicating the charset
and encoding.
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> I've had another look at the problem. It seems that the emails that
> are sent to me do display correctly using this encoding "Japanese
> ISO2022-jp" however they do not display correctly using "Japanese
> Shift-JS"
> While I have Mozilla set to auto detect Japanese I do not get to
> choose which version of Japanese it should use. Is this a problem or
> should it detect the correct one used?
Your description is actually confusing. The only way to tell what the
problem is for you to copy/paste the source of the message that is
having this problem. You can engage the menu, View | Message Source and
then copy/pastejust the headers, e.g.:
From: farcus <farc...@yahoo.delete.co.nz.netscape.com>
Newsgroups: netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news
Subject: Re: auto detect
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 12:45:18 +0900
Organization: Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Lines: 26
Message-ID: <3CA3E34E...@yahoo.delete.co.nz>
References: <3CA15F0F...@yahoo.co.nz> <a7v4l5$kag$4...@news.net.uni-c.dk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.139.94.23
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
Resent-Message-ID: <"qOJZS.A.0YD.PY_o8"@gila.mozilla.org>
Resent-From: mozilla-...@mozilla.org
X-Mailing-List: <mozilla-...@mozilla.org> archive/latest/22271
X-Loop: mozilla-...@mozilla.org
Precedence: list
- Kat
Resent-Sender: mozilla-mail...@mozilla.org
>
>
> Erik Corry wrote:
>
>>farcus <farc...@yahoo.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>>>I often get emails composed in English on a Japanese system.
>>>My girlfriend composes emails in English on the Japanese version of
>>>Netscape 6.XX and they display just fine when they get to me.
>>>However, the same composed on OE do not display correctly when they get
>>>to me. I have my computer set to auto detect for Japanese but still have
>>>to set this manually every time I get such an email composed on
>>>something other than Netscape.
>>>
>>
>>One can't really diagnose this unless you send the headers of
>>the problem mail, so we can see how OE is indicating the charset
>>and encoding.
>>
>
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Web Standards/Embedding
Netscape Technology Evangelism/Developer Support
From - Wed Mar 27 12:47:43 2002
X-UIDL: 6f4b2c7eadad07f6c632a392d30e63e7
X-Mozilla-Status: 0003
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
X-Apparently-To: farc...@yahoo.co.nz via web14808.mail.yahoo.com; 26 Mar 2002 18:10:18 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <yop...@attglobal.net>
Received: from out4.prserv.net (EHLO prserv.net) (32.97.166.34)
by mta402.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Mar 2002 18:10:18 -0800 (PST)
Received: from oemcomputer (slip-210-88-168-118.os.jp.prserv.net[210.88.168.118])
by prserv.net (out4) with SMTP
id <2002032702101320406g1i3fe>; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 02:10:14 +0000
Message-ID: <002001c1d53d$2a4e9940$71a858d2@oemcomputer>
From: "yoko watanabe" <yop...@attglobal.net>
To: "Mark Fairbairn" <farc...@yahoo.co.nz>
References: <3C0C9A54...@yahoo.co.nz>
Subject: ?g??
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:10:14 +0900
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200
>>> I've had another look at the problem. It seems that the emails that
>>> are sent to me do display correctly using this encoding "Japanese
>>> ISO2022-jp" however they do not display correctly using "Japanese
>>> Shift-JS"
>>> While I have Mozilla set to auto detect Japanese I do not get to
>>> choose which version of Japanese it should use. Is this a problem or
>>> should it detect the correct one used?
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="us-ascii"
A mail marked like this should have neither ISO2022 or Shift-JS
in it, so there's a bug in the sender if it contains anything
but English letters.
Whether it is possible for Mozilla to be clever and detect the
true character encoding I don't know.