Does SpamBayes work with non-English languages?
SpamBayes was developed by English-speaking people and has therefore had very little testing with other languages. There are some anecdotal reports that it doesn’t work as well with Western European language. It might work very well with them if these default values are changed in the user’s ini file (note that for Outlook users, this means the default_bayes_customize.ini file, rather than the one called Outlook.ini, or named after your profile): [Tokenizer] replace_nonascii_chars: True skip_max_word_size: 12 The first setting causes all non-ASCII characters to be replaced by a question mark. For non-English languages the setting should probably be False. The second setting causes all words longer than 12 characters to yield a “skip: X NNN” token instead of the word itself, where X is the first letter of the word and NNN is the word length. For languages like German, this can be especially troublesome, because an inordinate number of words will yield tokens like “skip: ? 17” because th
