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Re: japanese text in email body



On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 12:58:16PM +0200, Alain Bench wrote:

Correctly labelled EUC-JP mail should be viewable in
> most modern mailers, as soon as terminal is capable. A quick check with
> Mutt (on UTF-8) and MSOE seems to confirm it's OK: The three attachments
> look exactly the same.
> 
> 
> Bye!  Alain.

> shogun.iso-2022-jp.txt
> �偰��聻�

> shogun.euc-jp.txt
> �偰��聻�

> shogun.utf-8.txt
> �偰��聻�

Alain et al:

I now understand why Japanese has its own word for garbled text. The Japanese
you sent above displays correctly in mutt.  However when I start a reply using
emacs it shows the text incorrectly. Emacs does show the following snip from
an email from Japan correctly but mutt does not.

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding:
7bit 
��������򒲼�����Β�̒�������ג����ޒ�������Β�ǒ�������Βǧ��蒤풤���������꒤���ג����ޒ�����

This snip always shows incorrect in an xterm window. In a kterm window cat and
more work but less does not.  When I go to send this email emacs will say that
it can't figure out the encoding and offer me a choice of utf8 raw-text mule
or no conversion. I have tried them all and none seem to work.
Esperanto anyone?
Dave Driscoll