| Multilingual Support in Mail Users Agents | Testing results compilation
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MS Windows Products
Netscape Mail 3.04 |
UNIX Products
PineX Windows Products exmh |
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Note that some changes can be made in compiled results after finishing whole testing program. |
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| MS Windows
Products
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| Netscape Mail 3.04 | ||||||||||||
| Language/ Encoding Setting | Examination:
non-ASCII text (8-bit) Send/Receive/ Attachment |
Support of non-ASCII text in RFC 822 message parts/fields | Testing:
Support of non-ASCII text |
Notes
Problems Recommendations |
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| Compose | ||||||||||||
| (As is, MIME (QP, Base64), UTF7/UTF8, HTML) | Body | Subject | Addr. Free
form |
Read | Type | Paste | Send | Fwd msg | Attach text | Msgs List | ||
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Western (Latin 1) Central European (ISO) Central European (Windows) Cyrillic (ISO8859-5) Cyrillic (Windows) Cyrillic (KOI8-R) Greek *Turkish User Defined *Japanese *Chinese (Big5) *Chinese (GB) *Korean |
As is
MIME (QP, BinHex) (attachments) |
+ | +?*4 | +?*4 | +** | + | + | +*** | + | + | +?*4 | * Setting Language (of 18) for
Browser
** You can change encoding when reading message *** Send Cyrillic only in KOI8-R *4 Display correctly Messages list if header charset coincide with Selected Document Encoding |
| Netscape Messenger 4.04 | ||||||||||||
| Encoding/Language
Settings |
8-bit (As is, MIME (QP, Base64), UTF7/UTF8, HTML) | Body | Subject | Addr. Free
form |
Read | Type | Paste | Send | Fwd msg | Attach text | Msgs List | Notes |
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Western (Latin 1) Central European (ISO) Central European (Windows) Cyrillic (ISO8859-5) Cyrillic (Windows) Cyrillic (KOI8-R) Greek *Turkish Unicode UTF7/UTF8 User Defined *Japanese *Chinese (Big5) *Chinese (GB) *Korean |
As is
MIME (QP, Base64) UTF7/UTF8 HTML |
+ | +*** | +*** | +**
+?*6 +?*7 |
+*** | + | +***
+*4 |
+ | + | +?*5 | * Setting Language (of 56) for
Browser
** You can’t change encoding for Cyrillic text when reading message *** Composed Cyrillic msg always treated as CP1251 and converted to KOI8-R and v.v. according to built-in table KOI8-R<->CP1251 *4 Send Cyrillic msg only in KOI8-R *5 Display correctly Messages list if header charset coincide with Selected Document Encoding *6 KOI8-U encoding reduced to KOI8-R *7 Correctly support only UTF7, UTF8 encoded message contains unconverted non-ASCII text |
| Windows Eudora Lite 3.0 | ||||||||||||
| Encoding/Language
Settings |
8-bit (As is, MIME (QP, Base64), UTF7/UTF8, HTML) | Body | Subject | Addr. Free
form |
Read | Type | Paste | Send | Fwd msg | Attach text | Msgs List | Notes |
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No Language/Encoding Settings (Only Font Display/Print change) |
As is
MIME (QP, BinHex) (attachments) |
+** | +** | +** | +** | +** | +** | +?*** | + | + | + | * Can not view Source
* No Settings for Language/Encoding ** All features are defined by Fonts Screen and Header (for Printing) *** Use only charset=ISO8859-1 when sending message As is |
| Windows Eudora Pro 3.0 | ||||||||||||
| Encoding/Language
Settings |
8-bit (As is, MIME (QP, Base64), UTF7/UTF8, HTML) | Body | Subject | Addr. Free
form |
Read | Type | Paste | Send | Fwd msg | Attach text | Msgs List | Notes |
| *
No Language/Encoding Settings (Only Font Display/Print change) |
As is
MIME (QP, BinHex) (attachments) uuencode |
+** | +** | +** | +** | +** | +** | +?*** | + | + | + | * Can not view Source
* No Settings for Language/Encoding ** All features are defined by Fonts Screen and Header (for Printing) *** Use only charset=ISO8859-1 when sending message As is |
| MS Outlook Express 97 for Windows 95 | ||||||||||||
| Encoding/Language
Settings |
8-bit (As is, MIME (QP, Base64), UTF7/UTF8, HTML) | Body | Subject | Addr. Free
form |
Read | Type | Paste | Send | Fwd msg | Attach text | Msgs List | Notes |
| Baltic Alphabet (ISO, Windows)
Central European (ISO, Windows) Cyrillic (ISO, Windows, KOI8-R, KOI8-RU) Greek Turkish Alphabet (Turkish Alphabet) Universal Alphabet (UTF-7, UTF-8) User Defined (no options) Western (Western Alphabet - no options) |
As is
MIME (QP, Base64) UTF7/UTF8 HTML HTML (Multipart/Alternative) |
+ | + | + | +**
+*5 |
+***
+*6 |
+ | +*4 | + | + | +*5 | *
** You can’t change encoding for Cyrillic text when reading message *** Composed Cyrillic msg always treated as CP1251 and converted to KOI8-R/U(RU) *4 Send Cyrillic msg in selected Encoding *5 Header field in Message windows sometimes displyed non-correctly *6 Allow HTML Multipart/Alternative |
| Pegasus Mail | ||||||||||||
| Encoding/Language
Settings |
8-bit (As is, MIME (QP, Base64), UTF7/UTF8, HTML) | Body | Subject | Addr. Free
form |
Read | Type | Paste | Send | Fwd msg | Attach text | Msgs List | Notes |
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No Language/Encoding Settings (No Font Setup - Font select for current message/Window) |
As is
8 bit/MIME** |
+** | +?** | +?** | +** | +** | + | +*** | + | + | + | * Can not view Source
* No Settings for Language/Encoding ** All multilingual features depends on Font setiings (need to switch language for each message) *** Use only charset=ISO8859-1 when sending message As is |
| Forte Agent | ||||||||||||
| Encoding/Language
Settings |
8-bit (As is, MIME (QP, Base64), UTF7/UTF8, HTML) | Body | Subject | Addr. Free
form |
Read | Type | Paste | Send | Fwd msg | Attach text | Msgs List | Notes |
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All multilingual features depends on Font setiings for Message >Language You can add language and setup default Lang and correspondent fonts |
As is | + | ? | + | +** | +** | + | +*4 | * You can add language and setup
default Lang and correspondent fonts
** All multilingual features depends on Font setiings for Message >Language (need to switch language for each message) *** Use only charset iso8859-1 *4 Can not read QP in Header |
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| ESYS Simeon 4.01 | ||||||||||||
| Encoding/Language
Settings |
8-bit (As is, MIME (QP, Base64), UTF7/UTF8, HTML) | Body | Subject | Addr. Free
form |
Read | Type | Paste | Send | Fwd msg | Attach text | Msgs List | Notes |
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No Language/ Encoding Settings Allow font setting for different fields and services Address book, List, composer, Folder, Message, Printing, Default, Search, Viewer |
As is
No MIME Settings |
- | -** | -** | - | -*** | - | -*4 | + | + | - | *
** Allow font setting for different fields and services *** Reduce typed 8-bit characters to 7-bit *4 When Send/Receive can corrupt message based on wrong interpretation of 8 bit chars in Header and Body |
| The Bat! | ||||||||||||
| Encoding/Language
Settings |
8-bit (As is, MIME (QP, Base64), UTF7/UTF8, HTML) | Body | Subject | Addr. Free
form |
Read | Type | Paste | Send | Fwd msg | Attach text | Msgs List | Notes |
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All multilingual features depends on Font setiings for Message >Language I nterface Languages (English, Russian Ukrainian, Romanian, Polish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Lithuanian) Cyrillic Translation (DOS-866, KOI8-WIN, WIN-KOI8) |
As is
MIME (QP, Base64) uuencode/A |
+ | + | + | +** | +** | + | +*** | + | +
Base64
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+** | * Can change only Language of
Interface
** All Multilingual Features depend on Font Settings and keyboard *** Insert only charset=iso8859-1in Body and Headers *4 The Bat! can not change encoding n the fly – uses current encoding for reading message |
| UNIX Products
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| Pine | ||||||||||||
| Encoding/Language
Settings |
8-bit (As is, MIME (QP, Base64), UTF7/UTF8, HTML) | Body | Subject | Addr. Free
form |
Read | Type | Paste | Send | Fwd msg | Attach text | Msgs List | Notes |
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Languages and Encodings supported are defined by font settings in Terminal Program |
As is | + | + | + | +**
+*** + (4) + (5) |
+** | + | + | + (6) | + | +** | *
** Depends on Terminal Settings *** Only Text displayed *4 Unrecognised charset’s are treated according to charset setting *5 Don’t understand MIME (QP, B) in B, S, A *6 Attached images are rejected |
| Elm | ||||||||||||
| Encoding/Language
Settings |
8-bit (As is, MIME (QP, Base64), UTF7/UTF8, HTML) | Body | Subject | Addr. Free
form |
Read | Type | Paste | Send | Fwd msg | Attach text | Msgs List | Notes |
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Languages and Encodings supported are defined by font settings in Terminal Program |
As is | +** | +** | +** | +**
+*** +*4 |
+** | + | + | +*5 | + | +** | *
** Depends on Terminal Settings *** Only Text displayed. Also can reduct 8 bitchars to ASCII *4 Displaying and processing of message text depends on SETENV and LOCALE. Otherwise display unknown charset in ???? *5 Reject images from forwarded message. However, leave undisplayed characters in original message *6 Attached images are rejected *7 Don’t understand MIME (QP, B) in B, S, A |
| mh | ||||||||||||
| Encoding/Language
Settings |
8-bit (As is, MIME (QP, Base64), UTF7/UTF8, HTML) | Body | Subject | Addr. Free
form |
Read | Type | Paste | Send | Fwd msg | Attach text | Msgs List | Notes |
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Languages and Encodings supported are defined by font settings in Terminal Program |
As is | +** | +** | +** | +**
+*** |
+** | + | + | + | + | +** | * mh works as set of mail related
shell commands
** Depends on Terminal Settings *** Only Text displayed. |
| UNIX GUI
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| exmh | ||||||||||||
| Encoding/Language
Settings |
8-bit (As is, MIME (QP, Base64), UTF7/UTF8, HTML) | Body | Subject | Addr. Free
form |
Read | Type | Paste | Send | Fwd msg | Attach text | Msgs List | Notes |
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8-bit character set: ISO8859-1 ISO8859-2 ISO8859-5 koi8-r Spesify character for text |
As is
MIME (QP, Base64) |
+ | + | + | +** | +*** | + | +*4 | + | + | +*5 | *
** Message text displayed in message Windows (including MIME encoded strings in Header) according to Font Setting *** Use current Keyboard mapping support *4 Include charset tag acoording to selected Font/encoding *5 Don’t understand MIME in header *6 Cannot change encoding for displayed message |
| Netscape 3.01 for X Windows | ||||||||||||
| Encoding/Language
Settings |
8-bit (As is, MIME (QP, Base64), UTF7/UTF8, HTML) | Body | Subject | Addr. Free
form |
Read | Type | Paste | Send | Fwd msg | Attach text | Msgs List | Notes |
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Western (Latin 1) Central European (ISO) Central European (Windows) Cyrillic (ISO8859-5) Cyrillic (Windows) Cyrillic (KOI8-R) Greek *Turkish User Defined *Japanese *Chinese (Big5) *Chinese (GB) *Korean |
As is
MIME (QP, Base64) |
+ | + | + | +** | +*** | + | +?*4 | + | + | +?*5 | * Setting Language (of 18) for
Browser
** You can’t change encoding for Cyrillic text when reading message *** Use features of current Keyboard *4 All sent messages have only charset=iso8859-1 *5 Message list displayed only in Latin1 |
| Netscape Messanger 4.04 Communicator | ||||||||||||
| Encoding/Language
Settings |
8-bit (As is, MIME (QP, Base64), UTF7/UTF8, HTML) | Body | Subject | Addr. Free
form |
Read | Type | Paste | Send | Fwd msg | Attach text | Msgs List | Notes |
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Western (Latin 1) Central European (ISO) Central European (Windows) Cyrillic (ISO8859-5) Cyrillic (Windows) Cyrillic (KOI8-R) Greek *Turkish Unicode UTF7/UTF8 User Defined *Japanese *Chinese (Big5) *Chinese (GB) *Korean |
As is
MIME (QP, Base64) UTF7/UTF8 HTML |
+ | +*** | +*** | +**
+?*6 +?*7 |
+*** | + | +***
+*4 |
+ | + | +?*5 | * Setting Language (of 56) for
Browser
** You can’t change encoding for Cyrillic text when reading message *4 Send Cyrillic msg only in KOI8-R *5 Display correctly Messages list if header charset coincide with Selected Document Encoding *6 KOI8-U encoding reduced to KOI8-R *7 Correctly support only UTF7, UTF8 encoded message contains unconverted non-ASCII text |