Receiving email subjects in Japanese

This isn't necessarily a Mail specific question per se, but I'm not quite sure where to ask this question.
I work for a school district where the faculty all use iBook on OS X (Jaguar). Lately I've noticed more and more members of the staff receiving e-mails that are in English but have subject lines that are in Japanese.
I thought it might be some sort of spam thing but some of the e-mails are from other colleagues.
Has anyone else experienced this sort of problem? Does anyone know why this happens? Is there a fix for it?

Are you totally sure it is Japanese? Could you provide a screenshot of an example? Click on my name for the address. Also it would be helpful if you could do View > Message > Raw Source on such a message and copy/paste the result into an email to me.

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Bit of an odd one, I know...
I've done a little site in Japanese, and everything works fine, apart from one thing...
I have a mail script for the contact form, but the Japanese tect I've entered for the email subject is incorrectly displaying as ãããã¨ãããã&# 129;ã¾ãã.
Its fine in English, just not liking the Japanese.
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If anyone has any suggestions to get the subject to display correctly in the Japanese, that would be much appreciated!

The problem is that you're using Western European encoding, which supports only a limited range of characters. You should be able to use UTF-8 encoding:
Change this:
$emailObj->setEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
to this:
$emailObj->setEncoding("UTF-8");
If that doesn't work, try this:
$emailObj->setEncoding("Shift-JIS");
Shift-JIS is a Japanese-specific encoding. UTF-8 is Unicode, which supports most writing systems, including Japanese.

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Re: "feature requests should be addressed to Apple": That would probbbly be easier for benfrommo if Americans were even HALF as tolerant of foreigners struggling to express themselves in English as they are of Americans struggling to express themselves in their native language.
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Yesterday I launched the latest version of Mail. You can imagine my surprise to discover that I could STILL not edit the subject line, as almost every other mail program allows. So here we are, 9 years and 4 major versions after Mail was first released (and the complaints began), and the problem has yet to be resolved. If Apple had the slightest inclination to address this "feature request," they would have done so by now.

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I just switched from a PC using Outlook. My Outlook has always been much more than a bunch of sent and received emails. I have lots of folders and file things away for reference, and I frequently edit emails to make them easier to find via a search or to add additional useful info.
I cant see how there could be any technical difficulties in allowing users to edit emails, so I can only assume that they are unaware of the usefulness.
Why would you want to edit an email examples:
1. Quotes from vendors. Add keywords, our part numbers or additional info....maybe after a phone conversation. Sometimes the vendors call a part something different than what we call it, or they use horrible abbreviations in the product name.
2. eFax faxes that arrive via email. They all have a useless subject with the senders fax number only, AND the content isnt indexed by search since they are essentially pictures. So....without the ability to edit the subject, I loose the nice paperless fax filing system in my email bec I cant search and find them any more!
3. Receipts from web purchases. Add keywords to make finding them easier. Edit subject to include the name of the product/s that were purchased.
4. Notes or emails I create myself in these folders for reference. Outlook has a neat feature "Post in this folder" that lets you create a text document in the folder and type whatever you want. This is handy for keeping info in a folder that was not received as an email. you could email yourself, but that is a multi-step process that isnt nearly as clean and simple.
I think the Apple Mail creators don't realize that an email app can be much more useful than something to store exact copies of sent and received emails. If I cant find a solution for this, I will have to use another program, which is a huge bummer, bec aside from this one simple missing feature, I like Apple Mail, but this is a deal breaker for me.
Please just turn on this ability!

Mulder wrote:
You've misunderstood what Mail is: a mail client only, not a personal notebook or information manager. Outlook is more like the latter, but poor at that task, too. Apple can't "turn on" an ability that isn't there to begin with, and it's doubtful they are going to bloat Mail by trying to make it into an Outlook clone.
Maybe you've misunderstood what it CAN be. I'm not asking for an outlook clone. Just the ability to add useful notes to an email.
One very big reason you shouldn't be able to edit received messages is if you have to produce them for evidence of anything. The ability to edit an email means you could alter the contents to be different than what the sender actually sent.
This can be alleviated by recording the "Last modified date"
e-Faxes are still images, and Outlook doesn't let you edit an image, either. There's nothing stopping you from opening the fax in Preview, adding notes and then exporting it as a PDF file.
I dont want to edit an image, just change the subject of the email it came in.
As for creating notes, you can do that, but it looks as though you haven't read the Help documentation for Mail yet.
As far as I can tell, you can create a note but you cant put it in whatever folder you want. They live in separate notes folders, so it doesn't do what I was asking.
If you want to add keywords or tags to email, you need to use something like MailTags.
Mailtags looks like it will address all the issues I have. It allows you to add notes to an email in a separate text box that is searchable. Thanks for the tip. i would really prefer not to have to rely on a third party add-on, but will probably do it anyway. i really dont want to have to switch to Entourage...which WILL let you do this by the way as does Eudora, MS Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird.
Regarding MailTags, the fact that this popular add-on exists indicates to me that I'm far from alone in finding some useful functionality missing. At a bare minimum I think they should allow you to edit the subject line.
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Hi
I have had my iMac for a year now. I'm using system 10.7.5. I have had no problems with it at all until now. About a month ago I suddenly stopped receiving emails in one of my accounts. All the others worked fine. I didn't make any changes to it at all. All of sudden, when I clicked on the Send and Receive Mail button, the little wheel just turned and turned to the right of the email account and nothing happened. I called my ISP who told me everything was working fine on their side. They did notice that the account was logging in to pull mail, but it wasn't logging out again. They told me it was an issue on my side.
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''Before doing anything else, please do exit Thunderbird completely and [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb#w_backing-up-a-profile backup the profile folder] - it contains all your email, settings, filters, etc.''
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