Hello Sushi,
Thank you for the help! Yes, my friend is in native Japanese and she
still lives in Japan (I would love to see it more one day! I had a chance
to briefly visit several years ago and it was wonderful!). I am not sure I
can answer your inquired with specifics, but I will try...
>
> You didn't mention your friend's provider service. There are a few over
> here that don't like attachments such as Nifty Serve.
>
The only idea of the service she uses is via her e-mail address, which
ends in: @h7.dion.ne.jp
I am not sure if this helps, and regretfully she is on vacation at the
moment so I am not able to ask her. Is there something that I can download
that will help my computer interface with her's (thus any files/pictures
she sends)?
> they are probably sending you two byte
> characters vice one byte characters. A Kanji character requires two
> bytes to represent it. Our alphabet requires one byte. This difference
> can cause problems with text based documents -- even with numbers. For
> example, a Japanese 1 is different than a US 1. Sometimes files get
> messed up when they are encoded (saved) in the wrong format.
>
So far I have not had trouble with text as she is fluent on English, thus
has pity on my poor language skills (although I have studied a bit of
Japanese and would like to again when time allows).
> A couple of ideas that might help you with photographs:
>
> - Ask your friend to send the pictures as JPEGs, they seem to come
> through better.
>
> - Another is to ask your friend to make a zip (PC) or stuffit (Mac) file.
> Then you can unzip/unstuff at your end to see the pics.
>
> When it comes to pictures, GIF's, TIF's, BMP, etc. are okay. But if you
> choose to send via the Internet/Email, I've found it best to use JPEG.
> JPEG's seem to come through the best and with the least hassles.
>
> I forget if you use PC's or Mac's. If you use Mac's, one program you can
> use is Graphic Converter. It can convert most picture file types. There
> is a similar program on the PC side, but the name escapes me. Sorry...
>
> Hope this helps a bit! -- It's late, or should I say early, so I may have
> not made any sense at all! ;-)
Thanks Sushi. When she returns from vacation I will ask her to send it as
a .zip file. :-)
I really appreciate all of your time and help! And yes, it is late in
Japan so get some rest! Thanks again. :-)
Most respectfully,
Sam
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