MUAs Testing results
Product: ESYS Simeon 4.01
URL: http://www.esys.ca/pubrl414.htm
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Environment: Windows 95
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-03

1. Results of the test
 
ESYS Simeon 4.01
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  Fail Fail Fail      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Fail Fail Fail      
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Fail Fail Fail      
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Fail Fail Fail      
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Fail Fail Fail      
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass (3) Fail (3) Fail (3) Fail (3)      
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Fail  Fail Fail Fail       
Comment:
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(2) Allow font setting for different fields and services
(3) Reduce typed 8-bit characters to 7-bit
(4) When Send/Receive can corrupt message based on wrong interpretation of 8 bit chars in Header and Body

2. Examination of Multilingual features of Mail User?s Agents
 
ESYS Simeon 4.1 Alpha 8  SETUPs and First Examination 
  1. Has internal setting only for ISO-8859-1 charset 
  2. Allow setting of Fonts for differents filds, folder and parts of message (windows) - but doen?t work yet
  3. Simeon has not means to see message source
  4. Doen?t Understand MIME-types and has not any settings
 

3. Free form documenting of testing process

Tested MUA - ESYS Simeon 4.1 Alpha 8
Reference MUA - Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold
IMAP Server: Cyrus IMAP4 v1.5.2
 
ESYS Simeon 4.1 Alpha 8 READ 
  1. Doen?t Understand MIME-types and has not any settings
  2. In Tools>Options>Edit 
  • you should have possibility to use Copy/Cut&Paste for editing fileds
  • when trying to change >Font ->Default Simeon is detect wrong characters
ESYS Simeon 4.1 Alpha 8 COMPOSE 
  1. In Compose windows you should have possibility to use Copy&Paste functions (!)
  2. Simeon doesn?t allow to type message text in Russian, Ukrainian - nothing even similar to typed text - ASCII characters displayed have not visible relation to typed text from std Rus/Ukr KBD
  • Pasted Russian text from Windows in CP1251 is displayed in ISO 8859-5 like characters
  • Received message is not displayed fully 
    • Reference MUA display full message 
    • Text typed with CAPS Lock truncated or not displayed fully
    • Pasted Russian text from Windows in CP1251 is not displayed at all
    • Scroll for long line can be active only after stretching windows and shrinking Viewer window
  1. Problems with 8 bit text in Subject line
  • you can type Russian in Subject line but text is displayed in ISO Cyr chars
    • NOTE. Main used for Ukrainian and Russian language Cyrillic charset/encoding is Windows CP1251 and KOI8-R/U
ESYS Simeon 4.1 Alpha 8 SEND 
  1. When sending insert only charset=iso8859-1
  2. Sent and received message has 8-bit information (encoded in Quoted Printable -QP) but moved to message body
    • Suggestion 1: message composer/compiler accept first/second 8-bit char as command or separator
    • Suggestion 2: MIME type in Subject line is used not correctly (see RFC 822, 2045-2049)
 
ESYS Simeon 4.1 Alpha 8 RECOMMENDATION