MUAs Testing results
Product: Forte Agent
URL: http://www.forteinc.com/agent/agent.htm
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Environment: Windows 95
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-03

1. Results of the test
 
Forte Agent
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 (5) Pass (5) Pass (5) Pass (5)      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass (2) (3)  Pass (2) (3)  Pass (2) (3)       
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass (2) (3)  Pass (2) (3)  Pass (2) (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 (6) Pass (6) Pass (6) Pass (6)      
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Fail  Fail Fail Fail      
 
Comment:
* You can add language and setup default Lang and correspondent fonts
(2) All multilingual features depends on Font setiings for Message >Language (need to switch language for each message)
(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
(5) Can not read QP in Header
(6) Correspondent keyboard is necessary

2. Examination of Multilingual features of Mail User’s Agents
 
Forte Agent  SETUPs and First Examination 
  1. OPTION>GEN PREF>:
  • >LANG> can add language and 

    • set up fonts (for Browser, Message Body, Message List, Message Subject, Printer) in >FONTS> for different Languages
  1. MESSAGE >Language allows to set up default langauge for message body
  2. Use only systems Fonts and don’t provide any encoding
  3. Oriented mainly on English
  4. Don’t understand QP and MIME
 
3. Free form documenting of testing process

Tested MUA - Forte Free Agent
Reference MUA - Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold
 
Forte Free Agent READ 
  1. Need to switch Message>language for each message
  2. Problems with Displaying Subject in Russian
  3. Use font setting for Message List and Message Subject only for default language English

    4. but MESSAGE >Language choice works properly message body 
  4. Message body first displayed with default language but you can switch language for current message by MESSAGE >Language
  5. Can not read QP in Message header
Forte Free Agent COMPOSE 
  1. Can type message body in selected language using KBD
  2. Can not type Subject in lang except Windows
  3. Don’t allow to use free address form
Forte Free Agent SEND 
  1. Send As Is
  2. No Option/MIME for Send 
Forte Free Agent RECOMMENDATION