[openbeos] Re: call for foreign encodings (especially japanese)

Hello Andrew,

I was involved in adding support for Japanese encoding to MDR/Bemail 
together with AGMS in the past, and as far as I know Japanese encoding 
support has been completed for more than a year now. I have been using 
MDR since then receiving and sending Japanese messages on a daily basis 
with a significantly wide variety of people, and as far as I can tell 
there are no pending issues.

One little touch that could be added to make Bemail more user friendly 
is an option so that Bemail uses the encoding of the message that you 
reply to or forward. Right now it always defaults to the same encoding 
selected in preferences, so if you are replying or forwarding a message 
in a difference encoding than the default, you have to manually change 
the encoding in Bemail before you send the message. Perhaps this option 
could be added to the "Encodings" pull-down menu in the 
"Preferences..." screen. This would be very handy for those of us who 
receive/send email in multiple languages.

Cheers!

Koki

Andrew Bachmann said on Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:54:59 -0700 PDT
> Hello all,
> 
> I am adding support to BeMail/mail kit for additional foreign 
> encodings such as chinese 
> encodings.  I am requesting emails in foreign encodings.   In 
> particular I need samples 
> from japanese users.   
> 
> Please send me an email with some sample text (a paragraph) and also 
> in the subject please 
> list the encoding or character set that you used and the name/version 
> of the client that 
> you used.  Please send as many different encodings as possible. (up 
> to the point where you 
> get bored :-) )
> 
> For example, if you are sending chinese emails, it is useful if you 
> include both Big5 
> encoding and also GB2312 or GB18030, etc.  Your subject might look 
> like this:
> 
> Subject: Big5 / Microsoft Outlook
> or
> Subject: GB2312 / Netscape Communicator
> 
> Please include at least two or three line breaks in your body.  Like 
> this:
> 
> Pretend that this is 
> japanese text, and then
> this would be a good test sample.
> 
> Additionally, if any japanese user has run into problems or 
> inconsistencies between 
> BeMail and other email clients, please let me know about it.  Thanks.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
>

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