man mime.charsets.af (Formats) - list of character sets which are ASCII supersets
NAME
mime.charsets - list of character sets which are ASCII supersets
DESCRIPTION
The mime.charsets file lists MIME character sets which are a superset of us-ascii, ie that characters 0 to 255 are the same as in us-ascii. This is true of the iso-8859-* character sets which are standardised for use in internet mail.
Af uses this information to determine whether to display the text of a message in a given charset, or to treat it as an unknown type.
Lines in the file which start with a '#' are treated as comments and ignored, as are blank lines. Each other line lists a character set which is an ASCII superset.
EXAMPLE
# A sample mime.charsets file.
us-ascii iso-8859-1 iso-8859-2
FILES
$HOME/.mime.charsets user's list of character sets.
- /etc/af/mime.charsets
- global list of character sets for af.
- /etc/mime.charsets,
- /usr/etc/mime.charsets,
- /usr/local/etc/mime.charsets
global lists of character sets for all mailers.
AUTHOR
Malc Arnold.