Re: japanese text in email body
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:33:45AM -0500, steVe wrote:
> so spake Dave Driscoll [2004.06.08 @ 07:31]:
> > I'm working for a Japanese owned company in the US and I'm trying to
> > set up an email handiling/sorting system. My problem is that some of
> > the emails contain Japanese (usually coded per iso-2022-jp). I can't
> > get this stuff to show up properly in mutt. I'm running mutt 1.4 on
You might find the Mutt Japanese Edition worth looking into:
"http://www.emaillab.org/mutt/index.html";.
> terminal that actually supports multibyte characters, and setting the
> terminals encoding correctly. i have had success with kterm, mlterm,
> and Eterm (when built with correct support). once the characters seem to
The only FEP I can use effectively is ATOK, so I'm sorta stuck with a
Windows terminal emulation. I find TeraTerm (with ssl addon) adequate.
> for my japanese. utf-8 use *might* become more wide-spread in japan,
> but until then, i recommend using iso-2022-jp/euc-jp, as i've had no
For transmission, best to use iso-2022-jp. You'll eventually run into
trouble if you try to send messages in euc-jp.
> では、ガンバ！
“ガンバ”？？ [Getting too old, I guess.]
henry nelson
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