Code Setting

Foxmail version 3.1 or above support GB2312, iso-8859-1, Shift-JIS, KSC as well as us-ascii and iso-8859-1.

When you execute Foxmail to detect your Operating System (OS) and set up the corresponding code as default, for example, when running Foxmail in the Simplified OS, it will default to use GB2312.

Send Mail

If you want to covert Simplified Chinese to Traditional Chinese, please open the Compose box then click Tools/Convert Character/GB->Big5, you can also convert Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese by select Big5->GB

If you are composing mail in other language, such as Korean or Japanese, please open the Compose box then click Options/Convert Character to set up the corresponding character. If the corresponding character is not available, you have to install multilingual module before using this function.

Multilingual module installation under Win2000
Please click My Computer/Control Panel/Regional Option then tick a language on Language Setting for the System box open and then click OK. 


Microsoft support Multilingual Module under Win98/95, user can download from http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ or from the under URL provided by Boda
Japanese http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/download/font/Jp.exe
Korean  http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/download/font/Ko.exe
Traditional Chinese http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/download/font/Tw.exe
Simplified Chinese  http://fox.foxmail.com.cn/download/font/Cn.exe

Remark
Auto detection is only available for the document which is bigger than 10 words, if you can make sure the language for this document, please set a proper language.

      Remark
      This function is only available for Far-Eastern version of Windows.

Receive Mail

Foxmail will display mail according to the mail characteristic, if the mail display in illegible word, user can use hand setting:

Click Message/Convert Character then select a proper code, when the code is consistent as encoding, then mail will display normally.