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<H1>TUTORIAL FOR EMIL VERSION 2.1
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<EM>Written by Martin Wendel, ITS, Uppsala university.
Martin.Wendel@its.uu.se
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<H2>WHY USE MESSAGE CONVERSION?
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The major motive for using message conversion is the need to convert
character set of a message text. The reason for this is that character
sets in internet messages (at least outside of the English speaking
countries) is a mess. <EM>When the common characters in US-ASCII does not
fully support the national alphabet, character set really matter when
you receive a message text.</EM>
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The second motive is encoding. The problem is similar to that of
character sets. You normally do not support more than one or a few
encoding standards on your local mail agent. <EM>Therefore it is a big gain
in usability if you can convert messages to use the encodings your mail
agent supports.</EM>
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The third motive is message format. The most commonly used formats for
Internet messages in Sweden is plain old style rfc822, Sun Mailtool, and
MIME. Neither of those formats is suited to interprate any of the other
ones.
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March 1996<p>
<B>ITS Uppsala university</B><BR>
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