mime.charsets.af5

Overview

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.

Examples

# 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.