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Hosting Services with DBCS-Enabled Webmail?
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.