12-1. About Garbage character
Sometimes you have ever seen the
web page that is full of garbage characters.
It happens in case that the characters are recognized as wrong
language, and web-browser shows as wrong characters which was
not intended to use. These condition is called Garbage characters.
Magellan can handle multiple language, the character set is automatically
done.
In the e-mail, character set is usually decided in the header
info of charset. As there are rules on handling of characters
in each languages, you will not see garbage characters as long
as the e-mail is sent out keeping the rules. In fact, it is often
broken and you receive the message of garbage characters.
12-2. Exception of character rules
Even if you are sending in single
language, some characters might be illegible. For example, Japanese
peculiar character of shift-jis encoding is unavailable on other
encoding JIS. The problem is often caused in the case that operating
system is different. Magellan can usually handle such message
that includes character in certain operating system only as multilingual
mail, in order for receiver to read correctly as long as his
system can read the character.
If you don't know receiver's operating system, you should not
send peculiar characters which is available only on the Macintosh.
12-3.Character
that is impossible to send via e-mail
When you are going to send e-mail including the character that
is not suitable for e-mail, Magellan will notice you. However,
in case of above mentioned characters peculiar in operating system,
Magellan will not warn you.
If received message includes unsuitable characters, Magellan
will try to repair the character and show original characters
as long as possible however, the following message will rarely
interrupt the indication of e-mail body.
### Conversion
was stopped because unsuitable character found. ###
Magellan can correct
encoding even sender has mistaken.
But because this message includes unsuitable character before
encoding,
Magellan could not repair and show that character.
Please ask sender to
reject unsuitable character and send this message.
The above message will appear after the place of an exact unsuitable
character.
Because in such case that e-mail has not 'charset' header and
does not keep any rules of encoding, Magellan has no way to know
the character.
12-4. How to read Garbage characters
If you received e-mail of Garbage
characters, Magellan can convert the character set in order to
read garbage characters.
12-4-1. Japanese
| Japanese |
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If you received Japanese message certainly but it cannot be read, please check out the Pop-up menu of language in the Mail window. If other language is selected, select Japanese.  |
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If you still cannot read the Japanese message,
select the Language Pop-up menu again pressing the Option key.  |
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TIPS |
Usually iso-2022-jp is used in e-mail. But some auto-responder replies shift-jis. It causes Garbage characters. |
12-4-2. Other languages
| Other languages | To show illegible characters correctly |
When illegible characters are included in your received mail, select appropriate language from the Pop-up menu. Magellan changes font only by this operation. |
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If you still cannot read the character, select the Language Pop-up menu again pressing the Option key. |
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| Example of Cyril | |
When received
e-mail is sent by iso-8859-5 though the encoding should be KOI8-R,select
the language Pop-up menu pressing the option key. Available languages are shown in the dialog that you can change encoding to Cyril.  |
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| TIPS | Thai is usually sent by us-ascii. Accordingly receiver cannot read it, because the wrong encoding is intentionally selected. In Magellan, you can read us-ascii Thai message by above encoding change. |
Most languages can be converted correctly however, please note the following.
| Only the languages installed onto your Macintosh is available. | |
| Encoding conversion is unavailable on Unicode and MultiScript. |
Once you convert the encoding of received e-mail, you don't have to convert at the next time you open the e-mail.
