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Old 09-07-2009
Email a File from UNIX which has Japanese characters in it
Hi,

I'm trying to email from UNIX, a file which has Japanese characters in it (i,e. in the contents -- not the filename).
The file gets emailed, but the Japanese characters do not show up properly when I open the file on Windows in my Outlook mailbox.

I searched a lot of forums but still not able to figure out how to do this..

This is the command I am using :
uuencode test.txt text1.txt | mailx -s "This is a test mail" abc@abc.com

e.g. The File has the content as below :
,外国債（SWAP）
# 2  
Old 09-07-2009
Does your Windows box have Japanese fonts enabled? You might want to check that.
Are the characters coming up like rectangular boxes? If thats the case, I guess you need Japanese fonts on your Windows machine.
# 3  
Old 09-07-2009
Yes, my windows machine does have Japanese fonts and they are enabled.
I even switched the Langauage to Japanese.

My guess is it's an encoding issue with eucjis/sjis charset not being set for the attachment when i'm using uuencode.
# 4  
Old 09-07-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by jainkirti
Yes, my windows machine does have Japanese fonts and they are enabled.
I even switched the Langauage to Japanese.

My guess is it's an encoding issue with eucjis/sjis charset not being set for the attachment when i'm using uuencode.
from man uuencode
Quote:
The encoding uses only print-
ing ASCII characters and includes the mode of the file and the operand
name
I guess there is a problem with this.

Try, the -base64 option and before try printing it in stdout with term set to utf8 to see its encoding/transferring what we are really interested.
# 5  
Old 09-07-2009
I'm not able to use base64 option for uuencode.

when i do a man, it says :
SYNOPSIS
uuencode [ source-file ] decode_pathname

do you know how to specify the base64 encoding option to the uuencode command ?
Thanks,
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