Top Document: [sci.lang.japan] Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: Q2.8 What is the correct way to write something in romaji? Next Document: Q2.10 How can I see Japanese characters while surfing the Web? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Before anything else, remember that there is e-mail software out there that is not 8-bit clean. Next, don't forget that you can never be sure what route your e-mail takes from you to the addressee, nor that it will always take the same route. That means that your message may meet e-mail software that is not 8-bit clean. The only fail-safe way around this is to send your Japanese message in a 7-bit encoding, i.e. JIS, iso-2022-jp or iso-2022-jp-2. Shift-JIS and EUC-JP are 8-bit based encodings and may get mutilated on the way. Unfortunately, some mail software is a bit over-zealous and also strips the escape character indicating begin and end of encoding changes. Ken Lunde, wrote a utility called `jconv' that can, among other things, put stripped escapes back in. The source is at <ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/examples/nutshell/ujip/src/> and compiles without any problem. This same program can also detect the encoding used and convert between encodings if desired. If you really have to send 8-bit based encoded e-mail and it does get mangled, you can try sending it uuencoded. The receiving end will have to uudecode before being able to read anything. With `jconv' there should not be any real need for this clumsy approach. User Contributions:Top Document: [sci.lang.japan] Frequently Asked Questions Previous Document: Q2.8 What is the correct way to write something in romaji? Next Document: Q2.10 How can I see Japanese characters while surfing the Web? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: olaf@IMSL.shinshu-u.ac.jp (Olaf Meeuwissen)
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