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Bug 156460 - Japanese mail
Japanese mail
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: balsa
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Balsa Maintainers
Balsa Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-10-26 10:18 UTC by B.Plagge
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
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Description B.Plagge 2004-10-26 10:18:07 UTC 
Balsa encodes Japanese mail in EUC-JP.
However, commonly Japanese mail is encoded in ISO-2022-JP and modern system 
also understand UTF-8.
Therefore it would be appropriate to provide to a Japanese option (using ISO-
2022-JP) and a general UTF-8 option.
Comment 1 Peter Bloomfield 2004-11-04 17:11:58 UTC 
Current versions of Balsa have Generic UTF-8 as an option on the Language menu.

Re ISO-2022-JP: would you suggest replacing EUC-JP with ISO-2022-JP, or having
both options:

Japanese (EUC)
Japanese (ISO)
Comment 2 B.Plagge 2004-11-05 13:24:13 UTC 
Nobody is using EUC in Japanese mail, make it ISO-2022-JP only.
People won't understand Japanese (ISO). Can you make it Japanese (JIS)?
(In fact ISO-2022-JP is (almost) identical with JIS.

Also, as far as I know Koreans are using ISO-2022-KR. But I couldn't verify
this, so please confirm with some Koreans.

Thanks

Bernd!
Comment 3 Peter Bloomfield 2004-11-05 19:08:57 UTC 
If we're offering only one encoding, do we still need to indicate that it's ISO
(or JIS)?  Sorry for the questions--I'm very hazy about this!
Comment 4 B.Plagge 2004-11-07 13:19:24 UTC 
Look at it this way: Japan is one of the countries using more than 1 encoding
and until now Balsa employed one not being used for email. So from a Japanese
viewpoint the program can't be used.
If you change the label now to 'Japanese (JIS)' than the change becomes visible.
- Like most people only a minority of people are reading the Changlog infos.
Comment 5 Peter Bloomfield 2004-11-07 16:29:15 UTC 
Thanks for the clarification!  Committed to cvs--resolving as FIXED.