Email a File from UNIX which has Japanese characters in it

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi,

I'm trying to email from UNIX, a file which has Japanese characters in it (i,e. in the contents -- not the filename).
The file gets emailed, but the Japanese characters do not show up properly when I open the file on Windows in my Outlook mailbox.

I searched a lot of forums but still not able to figure out how to do this..

This is the command I am using :
uuencode test.txt text1.txt | mailx -s "This is a test mail" abc@abc.com

e.g. The File has the content as below :
,SWAP

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Does your Windows box have Japanese fonts enabled? You might want to check that.
Are the characters coming up like rectangular boxes? If thats the case, I guess you need Japanese fonts on your Windows machine.

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Yes, my windows machine does have Japanese fonts and they are enabled.
I even switched the Langauage to Japanese.

My guess is it's an encoding issue with eucjis/sjis charset not being set for the attachment when i'm using uuencode.

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from man uuencode

I guess there is a problem with this.

Try, the -base64 option and before try printing it in stdout with term set to utf8 to see its encoding/transferring what we are really interested.

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I'm not able to use base64 option for uuencode.

when i do a man, it says :
SYNOPSIS
uuencode [ source-file ] decode_pathname

do you know how to specify the base64 encoding option to the uuencode command ?
Thanks,