Re: Changing charset of mail to be sent
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 06:31:47AM -0400, Remi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a way to change manually the charset of mail to be sent.
>
> I write in English, French, and Japanese. So selecting the proper
> charset can often be a pain in the behind.
>
> If the e-mail I write is just in English, I guess any encoding can be
> fine. Though, when writing in French, I need to select iso-8859-1 or
> utf-8. In Japanese, iso-2022-jp, euc-jp, or utf-8. When I write both in
> French and Japanese, I must use utf-8, or else French accents on letters
> gets confused for Japanese characters.
>
> Personally, I'd love to use utf-8 all the time. But for some reason,
> many free Web mail services don't work well with utf-8. (For example,
> Hotmail and Yahoo. At least the Japanese version of those services.)
>
> I tried setting $send_charset, but often it doesn't give me the charset
> I want. I checked the manual and I don't find any way to change the
> charset manually.
>
> So, I'm wondering, does anyone know how to change the charset of an
> outgoing e-mail manually?
>
> In advance, thank you.
>
> Remi
Actually, nevermind.
After further exploring the issue, I came up with two points that somewhat
resolves the issue of mojibake(1) in Japanese e-mails:
1) I can simply type, for example, ":set send_charset=iso-2022-jp", to
change the charset to Shift-JIS.
2) After testing with Hotmail, I realised that the users also need to be
educated. The reason why they can't read my e-mail is because they don't
know that switching the encoding of the page to UTF-8 is the only thing to
do to be able to read it.
Alright. Well, that's it for now!
--
Remi
(1) "Mojibake" is a modern word derived from medieval nipponolatin "maudit
baka", meaning "cursed idiot".