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>Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:43:42 -0800
>Subject: Re: #6459 Chinese Email on Win2k
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> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:50:45 -0600 (CST)
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> Subject: Chinese Email on Win2k
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> Does anyone have any suggestions for a POP or IMAP
> email client that will handle Chinese reliably on
> Windows 2000?  I have a new Chinese faculty member who
> has just switched from Mac to Windows.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Carly Born
> Academic Computing Coordinator
> Carleton College

In all cases I would recommend Netscape with its included e-Mail client;
it can do POP or IMAP, and does an excellent job of handling the
encoding of outgoing email messages [from the View menu], and use the
same menu to render email messages in the appropriate encoding if the
given email uses a standard Western encoding like ISO-6659-1; you can
also set the default encoding for outgoing messages to a specific
Chinese encoding (gb2312 or big5) and is available on all platforms;
version 6.2 is very stable in my experience and comes with some cool
features for web-browsing, including the ability to "guess" the encoding
of non-specified web pages. I use it on MacOS X when I need to set the
encoding for outgoing e-mails manually; mail.app is a great app but does
not come with that ability, defaulting to utf-8 in all cases and some of
my recipients are not able to handle that encoding.

Good luck,

Robert
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