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Conference turris::digital_unix

Title:DIGITAL UNIX(FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1)
Notice:Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference
Moderator:SMURF::DENHAM
Created:Thu Mar 16 1995
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:10068
Total number of notes:35879

9688.0. "Can't uudecode Japanese mail file?" by DECC::SULLIVAN (Jeff Sullivan) Wed Apr 30 1997 18:27

We received a mail message with a uuencoded file from a person in Japan
(guessing based on the reply address). The uuencoded file that was included
within the mail looked like no other I had ever seen. It had spaces in between
each line. When extracted and uudecoded, the decode failed.

Is this a problem because the file was uuencoded in a different locale?
(I assume kanji, but again am just guessing)

The text in the mail message appeared to be OK, so the mailer may not be
related to the problem.

Thanks,
-Jeff
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9688.1not locale dependentSMURF::WENDYThu May 01 1997 12:507
    Neither uuencode nor uudecode are dependent on the locale. It sounds
    as though the file was corrupted some other way. Was it encoded on a 
    DIGITAL UNIX system ? 
    
    wendy
    UEG/I18N
9688.2The mailer did it...DECC::SULLIVANJeff SullivanThu May 01 1997 18:326
I think the user's (kanji) mailer corrupted the file. He resent it, I assume
with a different mailer or settings, and we had no problem decoding it on our
end.

Thanks,
-Jeff