Chinese font from mail

[j773303]

mail to root a e-mail, the content includes chinese font.
But it is can't show chinese correctly? how to trouble it?
Any configuration for mailx command?

ps: LANG=zh_TW.big5

[Michael Tully]

I'm not sure if this will help, but have a look at this document.

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/search.do?category=c1&mode=id&searchString=KBRC00000147+&searchCrit=allwords&docType=Security&docType=Patch&docType=EngineerNotes&docType=Hardware&docType=ReferenceMaterials&docType=ThirdParty&search.x=56&search.y=12

[j773303]

execute the mailx to read mail, can see the charset=us_ascii, how to modify the charset = big5?

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Have a look at the man page for mailx. It does state information about charset=????? where the default us-ascii is used if nothing else is set. So you may look at utilising $HOME/.mailrc

[Rick Beldin]

One thing to consider is that the shell used by root, /sbin/sh is not internationalized - that is, it will not work properly with any lang but C.

Does forwarding the mail to a non-root account work?