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then, if necessary, downloading the le to your computer. Unix newsreaders oen had a
similar problem, and users had to resort to saving the article as a text le, and then view
it through other means.
We are fortunate that today’s email clients do an excellent job in sheltering and insulating
us from resorting to cumbersome methods to perform seemingly simple and trivial tasks,
such as displaying email messages.
Email Troubles and Tricks
ankfully, the likelihood of encountering issues when sending and receiving email with
CJKV content has diminished. With the current generation of email clients being dedi-
cated applications or web browsers, the self-contained nature of such environments has
helped to a great extent. Still, most of the problems that you are likely to encounter when
sending CJKV text through email relate to encodings becoming damaged.
When using a text-based email client, while using a terminal, there are times when an er-
ratic encoding issue makes it seem as though your terminal went nuts. And, there are times
when the escape sequences that are commonly used for Japanese text become scrambled
or corrupted, for one reason or another. is might be due to a poorly written terminal
application, or simply a problem with the integrity of the Japanese text itself, such as it
terminating in two-byte mode. is can leave you stuck in two-byte mode, meaning that ...