1. Results of the test
 

Pine
Charset	ISO 8859-1   Latin 1	KOI8-R   Russian	KOI8-U  Ukrainian	Windows   Cyrillic CP1251	ISO 8859-2  Latin 2	ISO 8859-4  Latin4  Scandinavian/ Baltic
test-1 (Displaying)	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
test-2 (Printing)	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
test-3  (Replying with non-ASCII A, S)	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
test-4  (Replying with non-ASCII Body)	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
test-5   (Replying Copy& Paste)	Pass	Pass	Pass	Pass
test-6  (Forwarding)	Pass (6)	Pass (6)	Pass (6)	Pass (6)
test-7  (Typing on kbd)	Pass (2)	Pass (2)	Pass (2)	Pass (2)
test-8  (Exch non-ASCII default)
test-9  (UTF7/UTF8)	Pass	Fail	Fail	Fail

Comment:
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(2) Depends on Terminal Settings
(3) Only Text displayed
(4) Unrecognised charset▓s are treated according to charset setting
(5) Don▓t understand MIME (QP, B) in B, S, A
(6) Attached images are rejected

2. Examination of Multilingual features of Mail User▓s Agents
 

Pine (FreeBSD 2.2.6)

SETUPs and First Examination  SETUP>CONFIG enable 8-bit esmtp negotiation enable 8-bit nntp posting ML support is defined by Font setting in Telnet/Terminal programs (Telnet, F-Ecure SSH) Allow charset setting: character-set Allow speller linking Don▓t depend ot LOCALE (?) setenv LANG ru_RU.KOI8-R  setenv MM_CHARSET KOI8-R

 

3. Free form documenting of testing process

Tested MUA - Pine (FreeBSD 2.2.6)
Reference MUA - Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold
 

Pine	READ  Depends on Font settings in Telnet/Terminal Unrecognised charsets are treated according MUA options settings for charset Don▓t understand MIME (QP, Base64) in message Body, Subject and Address fields
Pine	COMPOSE  Can type Message ADDRESS, SUBJECT,BODY in language and encoding supported by terminal Program/Station and KBD
Pine	SEND  Send As Is if  SETUP>CONFIG enable 8-bit esmtp negotiation When repeating use original message charset (?) or own setting
Pine	RECOMMENDATION