7.4 MIME Encoding

MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) encoding must be used when messages are sent across the Internet, so that characters display correctly for users on computers that are configured for different languages. In ConsoleOne, you can set the default MIME encoding (for example, UTF-8, Windows Default, ISO Default, and so on) that is used by the GroupWise clients.

  1. In ConsoleOne, browse to and select the domain, post office, or user where you want to change the maximum mailbox size.

  2. Click Tools > GroupWise Utilities.

  3. Click Client Options > Send.

  4. In the MIME Encoding box on the Send Options tab, select the desired default MIME encoding, then click OK to save the setting.

GroupWise users can override the default MIME encoding in the GroupWise clients, as described in:

The Windows client and the Linux/Mac client support 24 character sets for MIME encoding. The WebAccess client and ConsoleOne support 16 character sets, marked with asterisks in the table below.

Table 7-1 Supported Character Sets with Their Associated Languages or Alphabets

Languages/Alphabets

Character Sets

Windows Default*

ISO Default*

UTF-8*

Arabic

Windows 1256*

Arabic

ISO 8859-6

Baltic

Windows 1257*

Baltic

ISO 8859-4

Central European

Windows 1250*

Central European

ISO 8859-2

Chinese Simplified

GB2312*

Chinese Traditional

Big 5

Cyrillic

KOI8-R*

Cyrillic

ISO 8859-5

Hebrew

Windows 1255*

Hebrew

ISO 8859-8

Japanese

ISO 2022-JP*

Japanese

Shift-JIS

Korean

EUC-KR*

Thai

Windows 874*

Turkish

Windows 1254*

Turkish

ISO 8859-9

Western European

Windows 1252

Western European

ISO 8859-1

Western European

ISO 8859-15

The Internet Agent also has options for controlling MIME encoding when messages are set to and from the Internet, as described in: