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1.8 Using Mail in a Multilanguage Environment
The operating system provides enhanced versions of the following commands
and utilities to handle languages based on multibyte-character codesets:
• sendmail
• mailx
• MH (mail handler)
The following sections discuss enhancements to these components and
codeset conversion done by the comsat server. See sendmail
(8), mailx(1),
mh
(1), comsat(8) for more complete software descriptions.
1.8.1 The sendmail Utility
The sendmail utility, which is a back end to several user commands, is
configured by default to support 8-bit data. The configuration that supports
8-bit data is required for multibyte character support. See sendmail
(8)
for
restrictions that apply to the 8-bit configuration.
1.8.2 The mailx Command and MH Commands
The mailx command and all applicable commands in the MH system
support the conversion of mail messages between the mail interchange
codeset (used to transfer messages to some hosts) and a user’s application
codeset. For example, if the mail interchange codeset is ISO-2022-JP and the
application codeset is eucJP, the mailx or MH command converts incoming
messages to the Japanese EUC codeset before displaying them.
To prevent data loss, when incoming messages are stored in mail folders,
the messages are encoded in the codeset in which they are received. Codeset
conversion takes place when you extract or display the messages.
To communicate mail interchange code information to other systems,
outgoing messages include two additional header lines like the following:
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