  MAIL and Characterset Encodings? 
 The Question is:
 
On the following system:
 
  Digital TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V4.2 - ECO 4
  on a AlphaServer 1000 4/266 running OpenVMS V6.2
 
How would I email french characters externally??
 
 
 The Answer is :
 
  TCP/IP Services and most mailers operate with seven-bit ASCII
  characters, with any characters outside the seven-bit character
  set typically requiring special encoding.
 
  If a standard OpenVMS DECterm can display the characters, they are
  usually either in the seven-bit or the multi-national character set
  (MCS), and can often be sent directly.  (The multi-national character
  set is rather close in contents to the ISO Latin 1 character set.)
 
  For other character sets and particularly for multi-byte characters,
  this usually involves MIME encoding, file attachments (often using
  MIME), or other similar operations.
 
 Answer written or last revised on  7-JAN-2004 
