Marco Posted August 12, 2003 at 10:36 AM Report Posted August 12, 2003 at 10:36 AM I have this problem with my hotmail account, sometimes I get mails from chinese friends who use some chinese characters in there mails, my english version of hotmail seems not able to display them, and I am just a beginner in chinese so the chinese version is also not a real option, has any one a solution for this, well of course I know that becoming fluent in Chinese as soon as possible is the best option Cheers Marco Quote
roddy Posted August 12, 2003 at 10:42 AM Report Posted August 12, 2003 at 10:42 AM http://world.altavista.com/ is an online translator which will give you some idea of what the chinese characters mean - don't expect a wonderful translation though. For individual characters try http://www.zhongwen.com - you should be able to cut and paste them to get the dictionary definition If the characters aren't displaying properly, try clicking View - Encoding and then try whatever looks likely - GB2312 is the usual one for Simplified Chinese. Also, cutting and pasting into other applications sometimes works. As for becoming fluent in Chinese - be patient . . . Welcome to the forum Roddy Quote
JoH Posted August 13, 2003 at 07:14 AM Report Posted August 13, 2003 at 07:14 AM I have a problem with hotmail and characters too. If I send an email in Chinese (using the internet explorer language pack thing) it looks ok on my screen, but comes out at the other end as garbage (strings of numbers and symbols). It works fine for inputting text for webpages etc, but never seems to work in emails. It's not just the encoding cos I've had a friend send one of these emails back to me and, when they did, I could no longer read it either, regardless of what encoding I tried. Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong? Quote
JackP Posted August 13, 2003 at 08:59 AM Report Posted August 13, 2003 at 08:59 AM Does your friend uses hotmail too? I can receive chinese characters with my hotmail, but if I receive the message on my normal account with eudora as a viewer, it doesn't show... if I then forward the message to a hotmail account it shows not the characters, but the 'garbage' which eudora showed... JP Quote
JoH Posted August 13, 2003 at 09:15 PM Report Posted August 13, 2003 at 09:15 PM Jack, that would probably explain it. None of the times I've tried it were to other hotmail accounts. Does it only work with hotmail then? Or is the problem because I'm emailing from hotmail?? Quote
JackP Posted August 14, 2003 at 07:33 AM Report Posted August 14, 2003 at 07:33 AM Emailing from hotmail shouldn't be a problem, just displaying with some e-mail clients is... I know out of experience that eudora won't display chinese characters, unless they are in HTML-format. I believe Pegasus mail also has some troubles with chinese characters, but haven't used the program myself. JP Quote
confucius Posted August 21, 2003 at 11:06 AM Report Posted August 21, 2003 at 11:06 AM Hotmail is horrible! Long live Yahoo! I ditched my Hotmail account because of so many problems. Too many to list here. Now I use Yahoo exclusively and am a very happy customer. Yahooooo! Quote
JackP Posted August 21, 2003 at 04:28 PM Report Posted August 21, 2003 at 04:28 PM Well... on the part that Hotmail is horrible I totally agree. Yahoo is much better, but since last year I use ad-free-mail (http://www.ad-free.info/adfreemail.htm), which allows you to check external e-mail messages as well, displays chinese characters correctly, and it has a 6 MB storage limit... JP Quote
Quest Posted September 2, 2003 at 08:28 AM Report Posted September 2, 2003 at 08:28 AM If you are using IE, go to View--> Encoding, uncheck Auto-Select, then choose Chinese simplified or traditional, or UNICODE UTF-8, but make sure you have chinese character sets for IE installed. if you are a netscape user, go to View-Character Coding- then same thing. Quote
pazu Posted October 1, 2003 at 09:55 PM Report Posted October 1, 2003 at 09:55 PM I'm using Yahoo Mail (Traditional Chinese version) and I think it works quite well with T Chinese only, sometimes I got problem with Simplified Chinese, that's bad. But I always choose ENCODING=>GB2312 to write simp Chinese, and in most cases it was fine... Quote
JoH Posted October 2, 2003 at 07:12 AM Report Posted October 2, 2003 at 07:12 AM Well, now that I have my hotmail directed to microsoft outlook, it all works fine - I can choose the encoding of my outgoing messages. Quote
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