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Turn report

Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:34 pm
by johntsai
I just noticed, the turn report that I'm receiving, the Chinese characters I have are all gibberish.... is anyone else getting the samething?

When I had the report sent to Yahoo mail, it was working no problem, but I have it send to gmail, and all of them have the same problem.

I've tried to change the various font, but no luck....

anyone got any suggestion?

Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:51 pm
by wichita
They have been working fine through yahoo for me. I only have to mess with the browser encodings just like I have to do in the game itself. :lol:

Does gmail offer any technical advice on dealing with Asian fonts?

Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:00 pm
by Sho
Gmail uses an AJAX interface, so browser encoding settings don't make a difference. The English in the Cantr turn reports probably throw off Gmail's encoding detection systems.

They have a help topic: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=22840

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:40 am
by johntsai
I've went through the help files on gmail...so far, haven't been able to get it to work either....

Perhaps I need to get it through yahoo mail again.... although I like gmail's filtering system much better than yahoo mail.... :(

Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 4:27 pm
by Sho
If you've been able to read the reports on Yahoo, it should work on Gmail - use "show original" and set your browser to whatever encoding worked on Yahoo.

Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 7:54 pm
by Chris Johnson
It seems that gmail can only handle the encoded versions if the email Mime Content-Type is text/html - Other web mail services such as Yahoo handle the encoded characters if the content-type is text/plain (which is the correct behaviour as the encoding is the critical factor not the text type ), as well as if they are text/html

I've changed the default content-type for the turn reports to text/html with UTF-8 encoding - The Chinese characters now look fine in gmail (well .. they look chinesey to me ;) - I've no idea if they are saying the right thing )

All players can now select HTML or TEXT as their preferred format with the html being the default setting on the players page

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:10 am
by johntsai
great! thanks Chris. I've been saving some of my latest turn report, they look fine now!

John