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benjyaroo · Mar 21, 2005, 11:09 PM

I'm having trouble writing emails in Japanese. Both Yahoo and Hotmail come up with question marks instead of the Japanese text that I've written. Has anyone else had this problem? I'm sure there must be a way to fix it... For some reason, chatting on MSN in Japanese works fine, but emailing comes up like this: ?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

ben

mduser63 · Mar 21, 2005, 11:50 PM

I just tried sending emails in Japanese both from and to my Yahoo account, and neither worked. Sending from my Yahoo account resulted in question marks instead of Japanese, while sending to the Yahoo account resulted in: "��ܸ줬��礦�֤Ǥ�ʤ��". I'm not sure what to make of this, but I think it's a problem with Safari's handling of input forms or something. Japanese works fine in Apple Mail. I use it regularly.

Can you read the following Japanese?
?????????????????

benjyaroo · Mar 22, 2005, 12:37 AM

Originally posted by mduser63:
I just tried sending emails in Japanese both from and to my Yahoo account, and neither worked. Sending from my Yahoo account resulted in question marks instead of Japanese, while sending to the Yahoo account resulted in: "��ܸ줬��礦�֤Ǥ�ʤ��". I'm not sure what to make of this, but I think it's a problem with Safari's handling of input forms or something. Japanese works fine in Apple Mail. I use it regularly.

Can you read the following Japanese?
?????????????????

Thanks a lot for the reply. No, Couldn't read that Japanese either... Is it possible to set up apple mail with a yahoo or hotmail account, or is that a separate account altogether? You'd think it wouldn't be so hard to send a simple email in another language... I'm sure a lot of people run into this problem quite often... Thanks again.

ben

Chuckit · Mar 22, 2005, 01:15 AM

This seems to be a bug with the way Yahoo Mail (and apparently Hotmail as well) works. It's just as screwy in Firefox, so I don't think it's a browser issue. My solution was just to use a POP account instead of my Yahoo Webmail account. You can get POP mail from Yahoo too, but it costs money. I don't know if you've tried this, but you might want to look into getting an account with the Japanese version of Hotmail or Yahoo. Presumably that one knows how to handle the script correctly.

By the way, I don't think this is really a Powerbook topic...

Magicite · Mar 22, 2005, 02:03 PM

Yahoo and Hotmail (dot com) do not support Japanese characters and whatnot. Pages there are encoded such that they do not support these characters. Other places, like g-mail, do support these characters (all pages use 'unicode' for page encoding). So use g-mail!

Hope this helps.

adamwsoccer · 07:17 AM

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tomato71 · Mar 22, 2005, 06:54 PM

I use Japanese all the time on hotmail.

You're going to have to change your hotmail's account default language to Japanese (Options>Personal>Nihongo (will be written in Kanji)). I know that when I have my account set to English (so I can spell-check my English language mail) my Japanese language emails become unreadable. You don't say how proficient you are in Japanese, so don't take offense if I assume the worst: if you can't read Japanese very well -all menus will be displayed in Japanese- try to remember the sequence of menus so you can get back to English (opushon > kojin jouhou > gengo > English).

As for Yahoo, it is my recollection that yahoo.com accounts have no support for Japanese. You would be best to get an account at yahoo.co.jp.

If that doesn't work I will try to think of something else.

tomato71 · Mar 22, 2005, 06:56 PM

edit double post

Cheetah223 · Mar 22, 2005, 07:37 PM

I'm not sure anymore, but you used to need to be invited to join gmail, if anyone needs an invite let me know, I've got 50 of them just simmering in my inbox.

tungtied07 · Mar 24, 2005, 07:26 AM

Hi,
Did you try going to any japanese sites and did they show up correctly? If they don't, maybe your computer doesn't have the Japanese language pack installed. Same thing happened to me when I tried to go to chinese sites, it was all garbled until I installed the language pack.
I don't know any better way to do this but, I just did a clean install and it worked just fine.
good luck, Paul

benjyaroo · Mar 24, 2005, 09:30 AM

Thank you very much for the reply.

ben