Product: Netscape 3.04 Windows 95
URL: http://home.netscape.com/navigator/index.html
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Environment: Windows 95
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-03

1. Results of the test
 

Netscape Mail 3.04
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	Pass	Pass
test-2 (Printing)	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
test-3  (Replying with non-ASCII A, S)	Pass	Pass	Pass	Fail (3)
test-4  (Replying with non-ASCII Body)	Pass	Pass (3)	Pass (3)	Fail (3)
test-5   (Replying Copy&   Paste)	Pass	Pass (3)	Pass (3)	Fail (3)
test-6  (Forwarding)	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
test-7  (Typing on kbd)	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass (3)
test-8  (Exch non-ASCII default)
test-9  (UTF7/UTF8)	Pass	Fail	Fail	Fail

Comment:
(2) You can change encoding when reading message
(3) Send Cyrillic only in KOI8-R
(4) Display correctly Messages list if header charset coincide with Selected Document Encoding

2. Examination of Multilingual features of Mail User▓s Agents
 

Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold

SETUPs and First Examination  1. Encoding Setting  Options>General Preference>Fonts>For the Encoding  Latin1 Latin2 Japanese Chinese (Big5) Chinese (GB) Korean Cyrillic Cyrillic (KOI8-R) Greek Turkish Unicode (UTF8) User Defined 2. Changing Document Encoding when Reading/Displaying message  Options>Document Encodings Western (Latin 1) Central European (ISO) Central European (Windows) Japanese (Auto-Detect) Japanese (Shift_JIS) Lapanese (EUC-JP) Traditional Chinese (Big5) Traditional Chinese (EUTC-TW) Simplified Chinese (GB2312) Korean (Auto-Detect) Cyrillic (KOI8-R) Cyrillic (ISO8859-5) Cyrillic (Windows-1251) Greek (Iso 8859-7) Greek (Windows-1257) Turkish (ISO 8859-9) Unicode (UTF-8) - NOT SUPPORTED User Defined 3. Language Settings  Options>General Preference>Language>Accept Language  Chinese [zh] Chinese/China [zh-CN] Dutch [nl] English [en] English/United Kingdom [en-GB] English/United States [en-US] French [fr] French/Canada [fr-CA] french/france [fr-FR] German [de] Italian [it] Japanese [ja] Korean [ko] Portuguese/Brasil [pt-BR] Spanish [es] Spanish/Spain [es-ES] Swedish [sv] User define 5. Mail Send and Post  Option>Mail and News Preferences>Composition>Mail>Send and Post  Allow 8-bit Mime Compliant (Quoted Prontable)

 
3. Free form documenting of testing process

Tested MUA - Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold
Reference MUA - Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold, Pine
 

Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold	READ  Understand MIME type QP in Subject only if charset parameter in Subject and Option>Document Encoding coinside (match each other) otherwise display ASCII text of QP When displaying Forwarded message doesn▓t accept charset parameter of original message but use current Option>Document Encoding in Mail Reader Subject in Cyrillic charsets is displayed in KOI8-R if 8-bit characters are used Subject in QP MIME encoding is displayed correctly if charset parameter in Subject coinsides with current Encoding in Mail Reader
Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold	COMPOSE  Message can be typed only in Encoding that was Selected before openning Message Composition windows Note. When current Encoding is KOI8-R, message is not converted and sent as is. Text in Subject and Address is displayed only in KOI8-R even if you are typing in CP1251 with current encoding Cyrillic Windows However, Address and Subject lines are converted from CP1251 to KOI8-R - Therefore to provide message with right Subject line you should type it ⌠in blind■ Cut&Paste for both Cyrillic encodings is supported
Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold	SEND  When Sending message Mail Sender converts message to KOI8-R using internal encoding table (originated from RFC 1459)
Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold	RECOMMENDATIONS