Chinese characters woes :S

[Kevin C.]

When I (or people) receive emails, or anything that looks like the
following:


°¬À︦ÓëÈüÄËÄ·
µ¶ÀÉ-2002ÄêµÄµÚÒ»³¡Ñ©

Ȯȏ
ÖÜ´«ÐÛ_


====================================
--- EOF ---

What is it? I know it's suppose to be chinese, but this is not chinese
characters. Did the unicode conversion get messed up during transfer, etc? I
do have Chinese PRC (pinyin) input system installed and hence can write: ???

etc

Just wondering whether the above non-chinese characters can be translated to
proper chinese characters....

 

[T. Waters]

It's Greek to me!
But, you will find experts in both Chinese and Windows at the Chinese groups
on this page:
http://aumha.org/nntp.htm
Page down past Brazil to China.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Kevin C.,

When I (or people) receive emails, or anything that looks like the
following:


°¬À︦ÓëÈüÄËÄ·
µ¶ÀÉ-2002ÄêµÄµÚÒ»³¡Ñ©

Ȯȏ
ÖÜ´«ÐÛ_


====================================
--- EOF ---

What is it? I know it's suppose to be chinese, but this is not chinese
characters. Did the unicode conversion get messed up during transfer, etc?
I do have Chinese PRC (pinyin) input system installed and hence can write:
???

etc

Just wondering whether the above non-chinese characters can be translated
to proper chinese characters....

Check the encoding. Click view/encoding, most use Western European.
--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Ken Blake]

In

When I (or people) receive emails, or anything that looks like
the
following:


°¬À︦ÓëÈüÄËÄ·
µ¶ÀÉ-2002ÄêµÄµÚÒ»³¡Ñ©

Ȯȏ
ÖÜ´«ÐÛ_


====================================
--- EOF ---

What is it? I know it's suppose to be chinese, but this is not
chinese
characters.

No, it's not necessarily Chinese. They are characters in a
foriegn alphabet, perhaps Chinese, but also perhaps Japanese,
Russian, Arabic, etc. They are rendered like this because you
don't have the proper a;phabet installed.

Did the unicode conversion get messed up during transfer,
etc? I do have Chinese PRC (pinyin) input system installed and
hence
can write: ???

Pinyin is a system for rendering Chinese in our alphabet, in
regular Roman characters. If the characters sent are Chinese,
Pinyin won't help you.

etc

Just wondering whether the above non-chinese characters can be
translated to proper chinese characters....

You need to have the correct alphabet installed for whatever it
is.

 

[Randy]

When I (or people) receive emails, or anything that looks like the
following:


ç©æˆ¦ç ”嚥çµç—›è·³
å½éš»-2002定議åŠåŒ¯é­åƒ£

仔肢
巓勧俛_


====================================
--- EOF ---

What is it? I know it's suppose to be chinese, but this is not chinese
characters. Did the unicode conversion get messed up during transfer, etc? I
do have Chinese PRC (pinyin) input system installed and hence can write: ???

etc

Just wondering whether the above non-chinese characters can be translated to
proper chinese characters....

Go to start->control panel->date/language blah blah
click on add other languages
then click on the check box for asian languages (the middle tab "Languages")
Then on details and (if you want to be able to reply in the same
language click on the check box "extend support of advanced texts
services to all programs"

Also you can select explorer and click on tools-> internet options ->
languages... and add what ever encodeing you want and what ones you want
first.

Good luck to you hope this helps (and yes its chinese)
Cya