email-encoding

Specifies the electronic mailing character encoding for body file and signature file.

Resettable, single-valued, per-document

You can enter a text string up to 25 characters long that contains the character encoding name.

No default value

If the content of body and signature files is plain text (ASCII), the character encoding for email body is US-ASCII.
If the content of body and signature files is not plain text (ASCII) and the attribute is not set, the character encoding is assumed ISO-8859-1 for AIX and Windows and UTF-8 for Linux. If the attribute is set, the content of body and signature files is assumed to have the specified character encoding.
Not all character encodings can be used. Encodings such as: UTF-16, UCS-2, UTF-32, UCS-4, etc. or other character encodings that have a 00 (hex) in the binary representation for a character are not supported.