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5 Responses to “Hackathon 2.0”

1. Wataru Tenga says:

   February 11, 2006 at 8:14 pm

   I wonder if any of that talent could be put toward making the Web interface support Japanese and other double-byte character sets. The gee-whiz features are nice enough, but I can’t even read most of the messages on the Web because they are in Japanese.
   wataru
2. Pat says:

   February 12, 2006 at 2:05 pm

   That is a great suggestion. In fact, language localization is something we’re going to pursue very soon. We’ve just engaged a translation partner that will be able to help us support all of the different languages our customers demand. In other words, double byte characters are on the list and coming soon. I can’t say when yet because I don’t know, but I will be blogging more on this subject soon.
3. Wataru Tenga says:

   February 12, 2006 at 6:07 pm

   Good to know you are working on it. Translating the interface is one thing, but the more urgent issue is character set encoding.
   I’ve seen Web email interfaces that were translated into dozens of languages but still couldn’t display Japanese email correctly. Even Yahoo has trouble with this, whereas Google does an excellent job with Gmail. Maybe you could study these examples to figure out why.
   Note that Unicode support is not enough; it’s also important to support charsets that use 7 bits plus escape, notably iso-2022-xx.
   The service as a whole is excellent, by the way. We’re into our second year with you.
   wataru
4. Anonymous says:

   March 9, 2006 at 9:51 am

   After trying several email hosting companies, I gave one try to Webmail.us. Now I am not having to switch over to any other.
5. Ram Gabriel says:

   March 25, 2009 at 6:45 pm

   Does Mailtrust have the abililty to import mail from gmail as an external email account.