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Hosting Services with DBCS-Enabled Webmail?

Posted by Cliff on from the localization-and-internationalization dept.

Dan asks: "I'm looking for an ISP that has double-byte capable Web mail. I have a small personal Web site where I blog on the Japanese game industry. The hosting at my current provider has been perfectly reliable, but I can't send or receive Japanese e-mail through their Web mail system, which can be a problem when I'm on the road. I'd prefer not to switch to a Japan-based hosting service because that would mean a Japanese UI for the Webmail, and I want to be able to give addresses to my friends that don't read Japanese. Does anyone know of a U.S. hosting service that might fill my needs? Thanks for all suggestions."

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  1. Horde? by m0rph3us0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think Horde provides DBCS support. I know it certainly supports a japanese interface. They seem to have lots of i18n support so I would imagine it works.

    1. Re:Horde? by hords · · Score: 4, Informative

      This Web Hosting Company, NatHost, appears to have this Horde Webmail interface.

  2. Verio Signature... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Verio Signature. Right now only available to resellers, but I'm sure it would be easy to find a reseller to buy from. Includes webmail that supports Japanese and English.

  3. .Mac by sakusha · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mac.com webmail supports Japanese, I just got some Japanese email and I checked the web interface (I usually use mail.app) and it works great. I know lots of people using .Mac for blogs.

  4. Re:What's the problem? by sakusha · · Score: 3, Informative

    The answer is: it depends. Any mail system can store and transmit messages made with several different double-byte character encodings. But a truly compatible webmail system would look at the headers, detect the type of encoding (i.e. EUC, ISO-1022), and set the HTML headers to make the browser switch to the proper coding, so it displays properly instead of showing mojibake.

  5. Myhosting.com by Space+Cow · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have been using them since 1999. Price is reasonable, service is good, and they support DBCS (I use them for Japanese).

  6. Re:ISP that supports double-byte webmail....? by tokul · · Score: 2, Informative

    SquirrelMail supports Japanese, only if you use Japanese translation and php supports mbstring. You won't be able to use Japanese translation, if php does not have mbstring support.

    utf-8 support works only if you use utf-8 translation or if your utf-8 symbols does not contain four bytes or more.