necroflux Posted September 11, 2007 at 06:40 PM Report Posted September 11, 2007 at 06:40 PM I've been corresponding a lot lately in Chinese and for some reason about half of the time I get responses along the lines of "你的email都是亂碼!" Basically something funky is happening along the way in terms of character encoding and the recipient is seeing a bunch of garbage characters. What a giant headache.. Usually I use Gmail to write emails, and I have it set to use Unicode (there is no Big5 option, just "default" - which uses Google's best guess - and Unicode). Now most of the people I am writing to are in Taiwan, who know doubt have their settings tailored to Big5. So it seems half of the people either know how to change the encoding when necessary or the software they use is better at auto-detecting the language encoding. But the strange thing is sometimes I'll write Chinese in a Web form on a taiwanese web site, where the encoding is totally out of my control, and they still complain the entire message is garbage! Mail.app for OS X doesn't appear to be any more reliable.. Is this a situation where I just have to use an email service from Taiwan like yahoo.com.tw? Quote
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