Monday, April 16, 2007

中文電郵亂碼 (Simplified Chinese Mail encoding problem)

A mail from China which should be simplified Chinese cannot be read, even tried all kinds of Chinese Simplified encoding in the Outlook.

From the mail internet header, it is found with "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64". It should be read with encoding Base64 but no such opion in the Outlook encoding choices.

Finally, it is decoded to a readable simiplified Chinese message by the following procedures:

  1. Copy the mail content to notepad.
  2. Save the notepad file as a .txt file.
  3. Open it with a Browser, such as IE.
  4. Choose the Simplified Chinese encoding.
Further reference:
Suggestions from another website - using Winzip + IE with the following procedures:
  1. Copy the mail contents to notepad;
  2. Save it with extension of .uue (e.g. mail.uue)
  3. Double click the newly saved file. It will be opened automatically with Winzip. (You should have Winzip intalled in your PC first.)
  4. A file 0001.txt should be found in the Winzip.
  5. Open IE
  6. Drag the file 0001.txt into IE.
  7. Choose simplified Chinese as the encoding and the message should be readable now.
Source and detailed explanation: http://ks.cn.yahoo.com/question/1307040600255.html

Recap in Chinese:
把乱码邮件的内容,拷贝到剪贴板中,然后将其粘贴到记事本中,存为文本文件(例如LI.txt),再将其后缀改 为.uue(改为LI.uue),点击此文件,会启动Winzip,然后启动IE,把Winzip中的001.txt文件拖到IE窗口中,就会显示邮件原 来的内容,而不会看到乱码。