Subject: MetaMail support for Chinese test?

From: Jianlin Chang <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 7 May 1993 00:58:15 -0400

In the metamail distribution from Bellcore, there are lines which add support
Japanese text in the "mailcap" file:

# The following displays Japanese text at sites where the "kterm" program is ins
talled:
text/plain; kterm -geometry +0+0  -e more %s /dev/null; test=test "`echo %{chars
et} | tr A-Z a-z`" = iso-2022-jp

To my understanding, this tells metamail to search content type head, if
"iso-2022-jp" is found, use kterm to display Japanese text.

My question is: how can you add Chinese support for metamail, can you do the
same as above? What's the format of the content type head for Chinese text, is
this specified by MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions), the proposed
standard for multimedia mail formats on the Internet? How can you add content
type easily for Chinese metamail?

It sounds the MIME is a good idea for sending Chinese text via internet mail.

Thanks for your help.

PS: the metamail can be foun on thumper.bellcore.com under pub/nsb. Newsgroup
comp.mail.mime is for MIME.
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