Great trouble: About GB2312 encodings in Mail

In Panther, Mail has encodings with GB2312 using in Simplified Chinese, it can made Chinese Windows PC users read the mails in correct encodings.
But in Tiger, Mail only has the encodings name "HZ GB2312 Simplified Chinese", it's not the same encoding with "GB2312". From Safari's encoding setting, we can see two of them: "GB2312, HZ GB2312...~{!1#,~}I don't know why Apple remove GB2312 from Tiger Mail, so that, many of Chinese PC users can not read may mails in there encodings(GB2312).
I check all my mail have sent, some were in UTF-8, some were in GB2312...It shows that Mail can sent mails with GB2312 encodings, but how can I custom it has my default encodings? and When Mail would use UTF-8/GB2312 to send a Chinese mail? Mail have no setting about that, just to choose one text encodings when sending mail, and in facts, it has no GB2312 to choose.
I can set up GB2312 in "Mozilla Thunderbird" as outgoing encodings, and I hope Mail can do the same things. Now, when I send a Chinese mail to PC users with Mail, I have to check back that what encodings was use by outgoings. If Mail choose UTF-8, so I have to sent the mail again, because the mail in UTF-8 can't read by Windows PC---when receive mail, many guys don't know how to switch UTF-8 to GB2312.

Posted on Nov 10, 2005 1:54 AM

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Nov 11, 2005 1:43 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

1.With the system language set to English, Tiger Mail uses UTF-8 as the default encoding for outgoing mail...

2.Simplified Chinese: The best encoding is GB-2312. This can be set manually for each message in Message > Text Encoding (where it is called EUC). To set the default for this option, open Terminal and type:

Thanks reply. I've read this info before, but there're two question about that:
1. With system language set to Simplified Chinese, we don't know which encodings Tiger Mail would use as outgoing mail, sometimes in UTF-8, and sometimes in GB2312, even you sent a same mail twice. I can't set up the outgoing mail just in GB2312, but not UTF-8.

2. That's right, the best encodings is GB2312 in Simplified Chinese, but in Message > Text Encoding, there's no GB2312 option, but one "HZ GB2312", it's not the same encodings as "GB2312". and "EUC" is used by Japanese, not by Chinese.

Nov 11, 2005 7:50 AM in response to JT Lee

and "EUC" is used by Japanese, not by Chinese.


I think that Apple has used the term EUC (meaning EUC-CN) to stand for GB2312 in the encoding menu. It is not Japanese, which is EUC-JP.

I can't set up the outgoing mail just in GB2312, but not UTF-8.


Can you not do it manually (choose EUC) in the encoding menu? Have you tried the terminal command?

I think normally it should use GB with the OS set to SC, unless you have a character not contained in GB in the message. Using Rich Text may complicate things.

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