Problem with getting japanese in mail using yahoo..

[GoldCoinLover]

I emailed www.renpou.com, saying I liked a video they used smashing a PSP, the email I recieved back looked like this, with weird characters:
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KENTARO YOSHINO

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Is there anything I can do to translate this indeceipherable message into japanese?
Actually the above is a bunch of HTML tags. I think . It looked like a bunch of indeceipherable characters because I believe yahoo doesn't accept japanese. Could someone please email them for me?

 

[PaulTB]

I emailed 連邦, saying I liked a video they used smashing a PSP, the email I recieved back looked like this, with weird characters:

KENTARO YOSHINO

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Is there anything I can do to translate this indecipherable message into japanese?

Possibly.

It's certainly not an easy job though.

Could someone please email them for me?

Start a Hotmail account (if you must use web-mail) and get people to send you Japanese text emails in Japanese (EUC), Japanese (JIS), Japanese (Shift-JIS) and possibly Unicode (UTF-7), (UTF-8).

After you're sure it works then send an email to them again saying the last email you got turned into mojibake (文字化け) and that you couldn't read it. Somebody here would probably help you with wording it - but there's no point until you have an email address that they can actually send stuff to.

 

[Elizabeth]

Start a Hotmail account (if you must use web-mail) and get people to send you Japanese text emails in Japanese (EUC), Japanese (JIS), Japanese (Shift-JIS) and possibly Unicode (UTF-7), (UTF-8).

If they send in those encodings, should it then work regardless of the recipiant's account ? I seem to remember having problems going between hotmail/msn and yahoo in the past, thus being forced onto the latter where she was already a member. Although it (any of those?) can be a major headache, no doubt, namely the bare bones editing and formatting controls and lack of even an English search function.

 

[Glenn]

I use Yahoo! JAPAN, and I usually have no problems with encoding. There is the occasional message that looks like it's in Chinese, until I realize that it's just a bunch of kanji and there are the occasional small katakana in there. Those are pretty rare, though.

 

[GaijinPunch]

It depends... if they sent the original message w/o the encodings, I think you're screwed. They would have to resend. While some mail servers mangle the encodings, Yahoo has no problems with these. Just tell them to resend -- easiest way.

 

[Keiichi]

So far, I know that gmail and Yahoo (US) should be able to do the encodings. I've never really had much problems with these. Also, if you're able to use a POP3 client read/sebd mail, like Outlook/Express, you should be able to do it fine too.

Keiichi

 

[Elizabeth]

Is anyone else signed up through excite (US) ? That's actually my main provider for Japanese messages and we do get sporadic mojibake, generally one or two characters but sometimes more....so if there is a way to set or configure the encodings differently please let me know. 私の知っているかぎりでは日本語メールの文字化けはありません。。。

 

[BrennaCeDria]

Importing the email into Outlook has always worked for me with my Comcast, Yahoo, and school accounts. Or, forward it to a hotmail account and set hotmail's entire page to Japanese. It's not that hard to find the "Mail" tab (since it's kana) and it'll display properly there.

 

[GaijinPunch]

so if there is a way to set or configure the encodings differently please let me know.

(i don't think so. Encodings are pretty concrete... either they're right, or wrong. EUC is the only one I've had any experience in tinkering with. They're in a %A1%A1 format, where A = letter and 1 = numeral 1-9. AFAIK, they just run substitution to make the characters. You might want to test it out in a different browser, and also forward the mail to something like Hotmail or Yahoo. If it looks on those, then the problem is with Excite (which would be weird b/c they've got a pretty large presence in Japan).