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Specifying the locale

Using mail in 8-bit (European) locales

An 8-bit locale is any locale that contains characters not present in US-ASCII. The MMDF mail system and scomail need to be configured properly for this to work. If they are not configured correctly, the 8-bit characters will not display properly at the receiving end.

The two kinds of data corruption that can be seen are as follows:


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