I\'ve never really been a fan of Microsoft Outlook, and have used Eudora for a long time as my preferred email client. (Before that, it was Pine on UNIX, but the prevalance of people sending attachments, as well as the need for me to access mail while offline made me switch to a Windows-based email client.)
But recently, a critical shortcoming of Eudora has been more and more apparent to me -- the lack of Asian language support. I write emails in Chinese more and more these days, and Eudora, at least for Windows, simply will NOT let you compose emails using Chinese characters, even if you have the right fonts and IMEs installed in your system. You will just get the usual \"???\". Compare this with Outlook, which has multilingual support out of the box. I just upgraded to Eudora 6.0 today and this is STILL true. And before anyone suggests to try a non-US version, there is no localized (modern) Chinese version that I could find either.
C\'mon Qualcomm -- the Asian language IMEs have been a standard part of Windows since Win2K.
Of course, Outlook/Outlook Express has its own host of problems -- viruses and MIME/Javascript security holes, a funky UI that doesn\'t give me the options I use the most in a easily-accessible way, still non-compliant in many ways in terms of Internet mail standards...
What to do, what to do?