Re: [Sheflug] Japanese mail

[Will Newton <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 26 Nov 2001 7:30 pm, you wrote:
> For reasons too complicated to go into at present I need to be able to
> receive, forward and send e-mails in Japanese even though I do not myself
> understand Japanese.

Never done it myself.

> I am running Mandrake 8.1 and have installed the locales-jp RPM and have
> set Kmail to use the Japanese character set but the mails are just
> corrupted asci characters.

Have you got the correct fonts installed? It is unlikely that Mandrake 
installs the JP fonts as standard.

> What do I need to do to sort this out or could the problem be in a faulty
> version of sendmail on one of the servers between Japan and here?

Very unlikely. Unless somewhere there is a 7bit server, but I don't think 
many such things exist any more (anyone?).
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