email client software

[Charles RIley]

Hi Phil;

Personally, I've found Gmail to work the best out of the ones I've 
tried so far;
Yahoo and Hotmail seem to be more limited in the kinds of encoding they'll
transmit & receive, although it might be possible to improve the 
performance on
these by adjusting browser and/or locale settings manually.  Gmail picks the
encodings automatically, which in some cases might not be desirable, but for
most purposes delivers a better result.  For e-mailing in Unicode generally,
there are some methods of transfer encoding that software developers would
ideally be aware of (base64, quoted-printable, uu, 8BITMIME, etc.)

There's also a suite of tools developed by Richard Ishida at the W3C that I've
found to be really helpful when it comes to multilingual input, without having
to install a keyboard or change locale settings.  They're not perfect, 
but it's
a nice model to follow:
http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/pickers/

Charles Riley

Quoting phil cash cash <cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>:

> ILAT,
>
> I am wanting get some recommendations on the best email client freeware
> that is compatable with Unicode or other multilingual needs for
> indigenous language communities.  Also, what "webmail" clients (Yahoo,
> Gmail, MSN, etc.) are good or not so good to use.
>
> I have recently switched from Outlook to using Mozilla Thunderbird email
> software and it seems to be good for basic multilingual email-ing tasks.
>
> Anyway, let us know what you think.
>
> l8ter,
>
> Phil Cash Cash
> ILAT list mg
>