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Article #491vm: sends garbled non-ASCII in default setup
From: Manoj
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:07
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:07
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This was reported by a Debian user.
In VM's default setup messages containing non-ASCII characters
are sent as "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp". They
look
garbled in every MUA (Gnus, VM, Rmail, Icedove) I've tried. If an
iso-2022 encoding is used at all, at least "Content-Type: text/plain;
charset=iso-2022-7bit" should be used, which would make the messages
readable in Emacs-based MUAs.
Note that this applies to messages sent in VM under emacs22,
with emacs-snapshot the situation is even worse: all non-ASCII
characters silently disappear when the message is sent!
This can be worked around by setting
vm-mime-8bit-composition-charset to "utf-8" which makes VM send
messages as "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8", although the
docstring for vm-mime-8bit-composition-charset wrongly claims that
this
variable has no effect.
manoj
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