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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. i18n by osewa77 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    [sigh] internalization is one of those things that we developers only start to add on when our code becomes widely popular. If only the programming techniques for adding i18n support were more straightforward.

  2. ISP that supports double-byte webmail....? by malachid69 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    All ISPs should be capable of supporting Unicode email. For example, a quick google shows that SquirrelMail, WebMail, et cetera all support it.

    Likelyhood is that it just needs configured... For example, look under "Text Encoding" here.

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    http://www.google.com/profiles/malachid
  3. You can do it w/ Yahoo (POP too) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    mail.yahoo.co.jp Their web mail works.... and if you don't want an account with them, you can use POP on their webmail from any pop server.... and you can do it for free....

    I use yahoo for web-mail when at work. I have them pull it off of my pop server, and they have an option to leave it on the pop server too. So when I go home, all of my e-mail still shows up in my mail client.... Also, you can change the "reply-to" header to anything that you want.... It is a great solution that won't cause you to change providers or e-mail addresses. And it is free!