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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. Re:Horde? by whoever57 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Do they? Or is their webserver just badly configured?

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  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. What's the problem? by jjhlk · · Score: 2, Interesting

    How is it a problem to send that sort of mail on 'normal' servers? Double-byte characters are made of two single-bytes. :)

    Is it a 7-bit byte versus 8-bit byte? I don't how the protocol needs to know anything about your e-mails content.

    1. 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.

  4. .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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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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    1. 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.

  7. 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).