Mac OSX/XP cross platform Japanese

[japslapper]

Hi Guys,

I havnt been on this forum in ages. Though FG did help me through some dark times when I was lost in Japan!

Just wondering and I am sure this question has popped up before:

I have had a problem sending Japanese script email from my OSX 4.3 imac G5 (power pc) using mac mail to a UK XP machine. The UK XP machine has the relevant IME bits.

If I send from mac mail to Hotmail Japan - the kanji are garbled. But will be ungarbled if the hotmail interface is reset to English, but in this case the header is garbled. (doing Text encoding changes ie Shift -JIS etc has no effect)

Downloading the hotmail message to outlook will allow the emails to be read, but then cannot be resent - kanji become ?????????? question marks.

The user of the said UK Xp machine swears it is an Apple problem. But I regularly email Japanese people who use XP (albeit the JP edition), hotmail and yahoo - and chat on Yahoo jp from my Mac and have NO problem.

I know part of the problem may lie with teh fact that OSX is one system for all nations, where as XP has different regional editions - same with the hotmail service.

This is bugging me, Any of you guys have a clue?

I guess you out there who do this thing regularly will know hat I am on about.


Many thanks for any help

JS

[Charles]

The problem is Hotmail. I routinely use OSX to send multilingual emails to XP users and the only people who have problems decoding are Hotmail users, if they use non-Microsoft ISPs their mail works fine. From what I can tell, Hotmail doesn't respect foreign encodings headers.

Tell your friend to get a real email account.