Technical data

3. The content of the /usr/lib/mail-codesets file
If a codeset is not determined for outgoing mail interchange, the mail
is sent with no codeset identifier.
1.8.3 The comsat Server
The comsat server, which notifies you of incoming mail messages, always
attempts to convert incoming mail messages from the mail interchange
codeset to your application codeset. The following lists describe, in priority
order of highest to lowest, the values that the comsat server uses to
determine the codesets of the mail interchange and your application.
• The mail interchange codeset value is determined from one of the
following:
1. The charset field, if included in the mail message header
2. The codeset specified as the system-wide mail interchange default in
the /usr/lib/mail-codesets file
If neither of the preceding values is available, codeset conversion
does not occur.
• The application codeset value is determined from one of the following:
1. The application codeset defined for the atty driver of the user’s
system
2. The codeset name in the$HOME/.codeset_device_name file,
where device_name is the name of the terminal device for the
current session
1.9 Displaying Reference Pages in Languages Other Than
English
As with the operating system, internationalized applications frequently
supply online reference pages (manpages) to document the application and
its components. The operating system includes enhanced versions of the
nroff, tbl, and man commands to support this requirement.
The nroff and tbl commands are tools used primarily by programmers
to create reference pages. These commands are described in the Writing
Software for the International Market manual.
The man command formats and displays the reference page and
can handle multibyte characters in reference page files. By default,
the man command automatically searches for reference pages in
the/usr/share/locale_name /man directory before searching the
/usr/share/man and /usr/local/man directories. Therefore, if the LANG
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