MUAs Testing results
Product: The Bat!
URL: http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/
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Environment: Windows 95
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-03

1. Results of the test
 
The Bat!
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) Pass (3)      
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Pass  Pass  Pass       
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass  Pass (2) Pass (2) Pass (2)      
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Fail Fail Fail Fail       
 
Comment:
(1) Can change only Language of Interface
(2) All Multilingual Features depend on Font Settings and keyboard
(3) Insert only charset=iso8859-1in Body and Headers
(4) The Bat! can not change encoding n the fly – uses current encoding for reading message

2. Examination of Multilingual features of Mail User’s Agents
 
The Bat!  SETUPs and First Examination 
  1. Can setup only Font 
  2. Can Change Interface Language
    • Interface Language
    • English 
    • Russian
    • Ukrainian
    • Romanian
    • Polish
    • French
    • German
    • Italian
    • Dutch
    • Swedish
    • Lithuanian
  1. For Cyrillic: Translation (DOS-866, KOI8-WIN, WIN-KOI8)
  2. Attached document Encoding
  • MIME Base64
  • uuencode
 

3. Free form documenting of testing process

Tested MUA - The Bat!
Reference MUA - Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold
 
The Bat! READ 
  1. Receive messages very slowly - one by one
  2. Message body displayed with set font but can be trslated to KOI8-R
  3. QP and Base64 in Header is treated only as CP1251
  4. Cyrillic is displayed in Message Windows and List of messages
The Bat! COMPOSE 
  1. Can type message body and header in selected language/encoding using KBD
  2. Can not display and type Subject and Address in lang except Windows (8 bit chars are treated as CP1251 only)
  3. The Bat! can not change encoding n the fly - uses entering settings.
The Bat! SEND 
  1. Body Send As Is but Header is converted to MIME encoding
  2. Option/MIME for Send 8 bit characters - QP, Base64
  3. But insert only charset=iso8859-1
The Bat! RECOMMENDATION