My wife has a Hotmail account that is defaulted to Japanese. She got tired of Outlook acting weird and sometimes not converting the incoming message correctly or when she would send a e-mail and the receiver getting junk characters.
So I set her up a Hotmail account and she now has no issues getting or sending Japanese e-mail. Well I was able to score her a Gmail account last week and after we got it setup we went looking for language options. From everything we could see volunteers had already done the language translation as a volunteer page said it as 100% done. But there was no way to turn on Japanese as the default language. It appears they will have a international language option but for now it is only English if anyone has figured out how to change the default language we would appreciate a e-mail to shokoc at gmail.com
Her first reaction to Gmail and she is not a techie is that it is a lot faster than Hotmail and will be switching as soon as they enable International characters.
Don’t know much about the languages as I basically use English. However, couple of things that keep me from switching to gmail permanently are:
1) Inability to send or receive exe files either directly or after having them zipped. [Very Important for me]
2) Need for shorter user names. I know their site mentions why the need for longer names, but then, there are users like me willing to go through some limits of spam to have cuter names.
3) POP3, IMAP, etc… They promise it will be there in future
Cheers
I think (GMAIL) it can send japanese if you past the text from a word document, I tried Hebrew and Arabic it is working fine, I am even getting ads related to these 2 languages now.By the way,
gmail means beautiful in Arabic , which gmail is.
I really don’t give a shit about GMAIL any longer. When they open it up for any1 to sign-up to, then maybe It’ll interest me. But, come on… why keep wasting blogs, forums and web sites talking about a service that is not available to every1 who wants to use it?
For now, I’m sticking to spymac… also heard about a new rediff mail…
cheers
There is a program that makes it possible for you to check your gmail from a mail program. The name of the program is: POP Goes the Gmail.