Re: [tlug] Japanese in Perl on Linux

[simon colston <simon@example.com>]

Brett Robson wrote:

> You don't need to base 64 encode Japanese if it is JIS (ISO2022), in
> fact you shouldn't. JIS is already 7 bit ascii. Just make sure it is
> encoded as JIS. If it isn't encoded in JIS, eg SJIS, using something
> like mkf to change it to JIS.

That's true for the body of the mail.  However headers must be US-ASCII.

simon