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Sending and Receiving E-Mail in Chinese With Outlook Web
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Outlook Web Access as Sending E-mail Client: Outlook Web Access can write and send e-mail messages in Chinese using Microsoft’s Chinese Input Method Editors for simplified and traditional Chinese. In the body of the e-mail message, simply click on the language bar or language button on the task bar (this will be present after installing Microsoft’s Chinese language support and Input Method Editors (IME), and by default is indicated by the button EN for English). Then select the appropriate language: CN (PRC) for simplified or CN (Taiwan) for traditional. Unfortunately, Chinese messages sent by Outlook Web Access can only be read by itself and Outlook. Furthermore, the recipient has to invoke Japanese encoding; neither traditional nor simplified Chinese encoding will work. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Outlook Web Access as Receiving E-mail Client: Outlook Web Access is the weakest receiving e-mail client of the ten programs tested for Chinese messages, reading correctly only 5 out of 13 sending formats. The most glaring failure of Outlook Web Access is that it is unable to read any of Outlook’s three formats: HTML, rich text, or plain text. Manual selection of Japanese as encoding format is needed to read messages sent by Hotmail with English as preferred language, OperaMail, Yahoo Mail, and Outlook Web Access itself. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Recommendations: Outlook Web Access is not recommendable for Chinese e-mail because of its weak sending and receiving capabilities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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With author's permission, republished in CLIEJ.