How do I send an email in Japanese?

Question

I tried sending an email to a new penfriend in Japan. I'm on a Mac by the way. I changed the language icon (in the top right corner of the screen) to hiragana and it typed Japanese, like I wanted it to. But after I sent the message, she emailed saying she couldn't display what I wrote because it was personal computer terms or "transformed characters" and it just showed up as a bunch of question marks like this: ????????

How do I successfully send an email in Japanese?

No offense, but nobody answered my question yet. I DON'T want to send an English email and have them translate, etc. I simply want to type an email in Japanese and have them be able to read it in Japan. I already sent an email in Japanese but they weren't able to read it because instead of Japanese characters, there were ?????'s. Whoever can help me out with this (and I REALLY need helpp!!!) get's 10 points and MUCH thanks!!! :-)

I have a Yahoo! Mail account by the way.

Answer 1

Do what Spookysickness said. The only guaranteed way - and even THAT isn't guaranteed ALL the time - is Yahoo Japan. Hotmail sometimes works, although I sometimes have problems with it, even with it set up as a Japanese language account! That applies to my Mac as much as it does to the PC I used to own! Macs are normally okay with Japanese, but there are SO many variables...!

Ask your friend if she's accessing her e-mails on a mobile phone - they are incompatible with most computer-based fonts...! I know, it's ridiculous! But that's the way it is...! My husband has to use his .Mac account via the web site, because the normal .Mac mail that you have installed on the computer just doesn't send fonts that my sister-in-law can read...!

Everything has it's own rules, and it's own fonts ... some applications can't read the fonts from other applications, and the same goes for electrical equipment!
; )

Answer 2

I would suggest these two things with no guarantee that either of them will work for you.

Get an ID at Yahoo!Japan ( http://www.yahoo.jp ) and send mail from Y!J's mail account.
Get a hotmail account and try that out. I can type and send Japanese no problem from mine and the only probably I have is before clicking the mail I see mojibake. But as soon as I open the letter, it all appears as it should.

It might also be because you're typing directly from your computer and her computer perhaps does not understand this. As such I suggest downloading JWPce (Google it, though I'm not sure if it works on Macs or not) or submitting all the text into a text box, then cutting and pasting it back into your e-mail. (I have to sometimes do that for my computer.)

Answer 3

I'm not sure how to send it in Japanese, but I know they can translate on their computers once they get the e-mail. This is how my Japanese friends and I do it. I write in English, and they translate it once they get it.

Answer 4

You could try Google Language Tools.

Answer 5

thats not something on your part, the different favor to help eastern encoding . they could put in eastern encoding personality that includes domicile windows installation or use exterior free approaches such as NJStar communicator.

Answer 6

try using the free online email translator at
http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products/email_translator_form.html

http://www.worldlingo.com/

hope it helps!

Answer 7

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/

try that it works for me when i send my emails to my italian family in italy!!
so good luck i hope it works