Support For Double-byte Characters

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Does Messaging Server support double-byte characters for displaying languages like Kanji and others?

Yes, Webmail does.

Note, however, that a lot of message are missing or even have incorrect charset labeling, making them very difficult to handle properly. There are even cases where charsets have been used that are simply incompatible with a given media type. For example, in email material with a top-level media type of text is required to represent line breaks as a literal CR-LF sequence, which means UTF-16 cannot be used with text types.

Another problem that sometimes arises is incorrect encoding. Chinese double-byte charsets generally require 8bit encoding and may not work properly if labelled as 7bit. Similarly, UTF-16 requires binary encoding and cannot be used with 8bit encoding.

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