1. Results of the test
 

Pine
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	Pass
test-4  (Replying with non-ASCII Body)	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
test-5   (Replying Copy& Paste)	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
test-6  (Forwarding)	Pass (6)	Pass (6)	Pass (6)	Pass (6)
test-7  (Typing on kbd)	Pass (2)	Pass (2)	Pass (2)	Pass (2)
test-8  (Exch non-ASCII default)
test-9  (UTF7/UTF8)	Pass	Fail	Fail	Fail

Comment:
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(2) Depends on Terminal Settings
(3) Only Text displayed
(4) Unrecognised charset?s are treated according to charset setting
(5) Don?t understand MIME (QP, B) in B, S, A
(6) Attached images are rejected

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

Pine (FreeBSD 2.2.6)

SETUPs and First Examination  SETUP>CONFIG enable 8-bit esmtp negotiation enable 8-bit nntp posting ML support is defined by Font setting in Telnet/Terminal programs (Telnet, F-Ecure SSH) Allow charset setting: character-set Allow speller linking Don?t depend ot LOCALE (?) setenv LANG ru_RU.KOI8-R  setenv MM_CHARSET KOI8-R

 

3. Free form documenting of testing process

Tested MUA - Pine (FreeBSD 2.2.6)
Reference MUA - Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold
 

Pine	READ  Depends on Font settings in Telnet/Terminal Unrecognised charsets are treated according MUA options settings for charset Don?t understand MIME (QP, Base64) in message Body, Subject and Address fields
Pine	COMPOSE  Can type Message ADDRESS, SUBJECT,BODY in language and encoding supported by terminal Program/Station and KBD
Pine	SEND  Send As Is if  SETUP>CONFIG enable 8-bit esmtp negotiation When repeating use original message charset (?) or own setting
Pine	RECOMMENDATION