how to display Chinese characters in e-mails

[Andrea]

in an e-mail from your Chinese teacher?
I am in the EASA Chinese for Adults class at SAS, and got and e-mail beck from the teacher, with Chinese characters and the corresponding hanyu pinyin, but this is what it looked like:

ллÄãÊ·°²ÑÅ£¡
xiexie ni shi anya

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chen laoshi

The answer to my question to the teacher as to how to display the characters had some good hints, but I am now wondering whether the school has a program installed that creates the characters:

"You can try to decode from the view incon. If still can not open it. I hear that is a nj star.com you can download the program"

njstar.com seems to only have Chinese and other Word Processor programs, but no fonts.

[Admin]

Hi Andreas,

Microsoft Windows XP has a 'plug in' that will work if you need to see the chinese characters.
It is a bit complicated to explain so I will have to prepare screenshots for you to follow, I'll post something later tonight when I can.

If you buy NJStar you will get special chinese fonts that you can use however the teacher needs to use only the default chinese font/characters that Microsoft offers in order for the parent to read the email properly if chinese characters are being used in the main context of the email.

regards
Faizul