MUAs Testing results
Product: Windows Eudora Lite 3.0
URL: http://www.eudora.com/international/
Product Contact:
Environment: Windows 95
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-03

1. Results of the test
 
Windows Eudora Lite 3.0
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass  Pass (2) Pass (2) Pass (2)      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Fail  Fail  Fail       
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-5  
(Replying Copy&  
Paste)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Fail  Fail Fail Fail      
 
Comment:
(2) All features are defined by Fonts Screen and Header (for Printing)
(3) Use only charset=ISO8859-1 when sending message
(4) Text is not readable but is not corrupted when sending and can be read in another MUAs that support necessary encoding and have correspondent fonts

2. Examination of Multilingual features of Mail User’s Agents
 
Windows Eudora Lite 3.0 SETUPs and First Examination 
  1. Only Font settings
  2. MIME Encodings (only for Attachment
  • MIME (QP)
  • BinHex
3. Free form documenting of testing process

Tested MUA - Windows Eudora Lite 3.0
Reference MUA - Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold
 
Windows Eudora Lite 3.0 READ 
  1. Has internal setting only for ISO-8859-1 charset, But you can read/display Cyrillic in CP 1251 or KOI8-R/U depending on Screen Font Settings
  2. Eudora has not means to see message source
  3. Understand MIME-type iso8859-1 in Subj: but doesn’t understand koi8-r 
Windows Eudora Lite 3.0 COMPOSE 

1. Using Font settings
Windows Eudora Lite 3.0 SEND 

1. Only charset=iso8859-1 inserted dependless of composed mesage
Windows Eudora Lite 3.0 RECOMMENDATION
 


Product: Windows Eudora Pro 3.0

URL: http://www.eudora.com/international/
Product Contact:
Environment: Windows 95
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-03

1. Results of the test
 
Windows Eudora Pro 3.0
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass  Pass (2) Pass (2) Pass (2)      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Fail  Fail  Fail       
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass  Pass (3)  Pass (3)  Pass (3)       
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Fail  Fail Fail Fail      
 
Comment:

(2) All features are defined by Fonts Screen and Header (for Printing)
(3) Use only charset=ISO8859-1 when sending message
(4) Text is not readable but is not corrupted when sending and can be read in another MUAs that support necessary encoding and have correspondent fonts

2. Examination of Multilingual features of Mail User’s Agents
 
Windows Eudora Pro 3.0 SETUPs and First Examination 
  1. Only Font settings
  2. MIME Encodings (only for Attachment)
  • MIME (QP)
  • BinHex
  • uuencode
3. Free form documenting of testing process

Tested MUA - Windows Eudora Pro 3.0
Reference MUA - Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold
 
Windows Eudora Pro 3.0 READ 
  1. Has internal setting only for ISO-8859-1 charset, But you can read/display Cyrillic in CP 1251 or KOI8-R/U depending on Screen Font Settings
  2. Eudora has not means to see message source
  3. Understand MIME-type iso8859-1 in Subj: but doesn’t understand koi8-r 
Windows Eudora Pro 3.0 COMPOSE 

1. Using Font settings
Windows Eudora Pro 3.0 SEND 

1. Only charset=iso8859-1 inserted dependless of composed mesage 
 
Windows Eudora Pro 3.0 RECOMMENDATION