1. Results of the test
 

Netscape 3.01 for X Windows
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	Maybe
test-4  (Replying with non-ASCII Body)	Pass	Pass	Pass	Maybe
test-5   (Replying Copy& Paste)	Pass	Pass	Pass	Maybe
test-6  (Forwarding)	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
test-7  (Typing on kbd)	Pass	Pass	Pass	Fail (3)
test-8  (Exch non-ASCII default)
test-9  (UTF7/UTF8)	Fail	Fail	Fail	Fail

Comment:
* Setting Language (of 56) for Browser
(2) You can?t change encoding for Cyrillic text when reading message
(3) Use features of current Keyboard
(4) All sent messages have only charset=iso8859-1
(5) Message list displayed only in Latin1

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

Netscape Mail 3.04

SETUPs and First Examination  Language Settings - No Language Settings Encoding Setting Options>General Preference>Fonts>For the Encoding  Cyrillic (KOI8-R) Japanese (jis_x0201) Japanese (jis_x0208-1983) Korean (ks_c_5601-1987) Simplified Chinese (gb_2312-80) User Defined  Western (iso-8859-1) Changing Document Encoding when Reading/Displaying message  Options>Document Encodings Western (Latin 1) Central European (ISO) Japanese (Auto-Detect) Japanese (Shift_JIS) Japanese (EUC-JP) Traditional Chinese (Big5) Traditional Chinese (EUTC-TW) Simplified Chinese (GB) Korean (EUC-KR) Korean (ISO-2022-KR) Cyrillic (KOI8-R) Cyrillic (ISO8859-5) Greek (ISO 8859-7) Turkish (ISO 8859-9) User Defined Mail Send and Post  Option>Mail and News Preferences>Composition>Mail>Send and Post  Allow 8-bit Mime Compliant (Quoted Prontable) For the KOI8-R encoding only Fonts that have KOI8-R encoding parameter can be set/selected CP 1251 and KOI8-U fonts can be installed only for User Defined Encoding Attache file As is Convert to plain text  Convert to Postscript

 

3. Free form documenting of testing process

Tested MUA - Netscape Mail 3.01
Reference MUA - Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold
Environment: FreeBSD, X-Win32, X-Win32 Util (Keyboard USA Englis), xrus (Jc koi8 map for keyboard)
 

Netscape Mail 3.04	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 KOI8-R text in message Header and Body are displayed correctly with KOI8-R DocEncoding in message window and diplayed only with Latin 1 in messages list message in CP 1251 can be read with User Defined Encoding and correcpondent fonts  Subject in QP MIME encoding is displayed correctly if charset parameter in Subject coinsides with current Encoding in Mail Reader Characters that are not displayed by current font are saved and transferred and can read in other viewer and/or MUA When using QP MIME encoding for Header - messages list is displayed in default charset but message body display ASCII text of QP text
Netscape Mail 3.04	COMPOSE  Message can be typed only in Encoding that was Selected before openning Message Composition windows Text in Subject and Address are displayed only in default (i.e. Latin1) charset Copy/Cut&Paste from/for Header fields are not supported from keyboard and from Edit menu Can not type in current KOI8-R (when using xrus utilityfor support Russian KOI8-R keyboard) But you can type ?in blind? - It?s display problem! When Reply/Forward some charscters are warned not supported and to be discarded
Netscape Mail 3.04	SEND  When Sending message Mail Sender is not converted to other default encoding (F.E., KOI8-R) doesn?t use internal encoding table  When send only one (default) charset type is used charset=iso-8859-1, particularly when senbding in KOI8-R Suggestion. It is useful to give user possibility to choose default encoding for composition and sending
Netscape Mail 3.04	RECOMMENDATIONS