"Jamie" wrote ...
> "Paul Blay" <ranma@saotome.demon.co.uk> wrote ...
> > It's JIS but jamie doesn't know how to get charset information in his
> > post headers.  (I do, but I'm not feeling helpful today.)
> 
> I do have it set to Japanese (auto-select) but something is not right -
> anyways, if you do want to read my posts perhaps you can be helpful another
> day...please with sugar on top!

Actually it appears that you've worked it out for yourself now.