Monday, September 6, 2010

Configure Dada Mail to send Chinese Emails

To Configure Dada Mail to send Emails in Chinese (Big5) by default:

1. add the Chinese char set in: ~/www/cgi-bin/dada/DADA: change Config.pm
  • Change:
  • $HTML_CHARSET ||= 'iso-8859-1';
  • To:
  • $HTML_CHARSET ||= 'big5';  
    # $HTML_CHARSET ||= 'iso-8859-1';
  • Add:
    'Chinese Traditional (Big5) big5',
  • Change:
  • charset => 'English (en) iso-8859-1',
  • To:
  • # charset => 'English (en) iso-8859-1',
    charset => 'Traditional Chinese (Big 5) big5',


2. Configure Dada Mail front end to use Chinese as default
  • Select "Sending Options" on the left panel
  • Select "Advanced" on the bottom
  • Change "Default Character Set of Mailings " to 'Traditional Chinese (Big 5) big5'
3. It's also recommended that before you send an email, on your browser, change the  Character Encoding to Chinese Traditional (Big5), in Firefox, this is under "View->Character Encoding"

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