Mail cannot Display Chinese Correctly!?

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Mail cannot Display Chinese Correctly!?

I have set up Google mail in Mail on the iPhone, but I cannot read emails written in Chinese. Is it just me or is it Apple's bug? I think Apple should fix this since 1.1.3 firmware already offered support for Asian font like Chinese. For now by going to Settings--General--International--Asian Font--Chinese, does not help at all.

Thanks,

Windows Vista

Posted on Feb 21, 2008 3:31 AM

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Answer 1

Nathan C

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Feb 21, 2008 8:21 AM in response to texplorer

texplorer,

Was the email sent with a Unicode Chinese font, or an older font?

If it used Unicode it should display correctly.

Hope this helps,

Nathan C.

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texplorer Author

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Feb 22, 2008 2:42 AM in response to Nathan C

Sound good on paper. But most people would not know how to set their outgoing mails to Unicode in their webmail or email client.

The real solution should be on the receiver's end, i.e. give us the options to choose how to encode incoming emails written in different languages. Just like you can select how to encode a webpage in IE or Safari.

Thanks for the hint anyway.

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Tom Gewecke

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Feb 23, 2008 4:59 PM in response to texplorer

But most people would not know how to set their outgoing mails to Unicode in their webmail or email client.

And that might not make any difference either, because most webmail is defective and can't handle unicode correctly anyway.

The real solution should be on the receiver's end, i.e. give us the options to choose how to encode incoming emails written in different languages. Just like you can select how to encode a webpage in IE or Safari.

Of course that is correct. Hopefully the iPhone will eventually have all the encoding and font capabilities of the full OS X. Make sure you tell Apple you want this here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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texplorer Author

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Feb 24, 2008 3:08 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

I have done it. Hope they will do something.

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