Will jASEN work with multilingual spam emails?
No. jASEN uses several word and linguistic techniques to identify spam which rely on the premise that the spam is in English. Whilst the broad techniques adopted by jASEN are transferrable to non-English (single byte) languages, we simply do not have an extensive enough database of non-English ham/spam with which to train the engine. It is unclear whether this assumption holds true for double byte languages like Chinese, and the likelihood is that such languages are not supportive of the techniques used in jASEN. Fortunately almost all spam is in English, so this limitation does not currently present a serious problem. The increase in the use of languages like Chinese in an online context however, does indicate that this may not always be the case. At present there are no plans to provide support for multilingual scanning however we would welcome an thoughts or contibutions on the matter.
