Re: VM encodes with 'wrong' charset

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From: Kevin Rodgers
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:35

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José Miguel Figueroa wrote:
> Suppose I compose a message in VM which contains, say, latin-1
> characters but also hiragana characters.  When VM encodes the message
> prior to sending it, it will choose the iso-2022-jp charset.  As a
> result, the latin-1 characters do not display correctly; e.g., ,Ai(B
> instead of é.
>
> I have however received messages where both types of characters coexist
> happily, but these seem to be sent using a patched version of VM/7.19
> where the MIME has been generated by SEMI and not internally by VM.
>
> My question is whether I can force VM to use a charset which contains
> both types of characters, or whether I have to patch VM to call SEMI
> for MIME encoding.

You might be able to force VM to do that by setting
buffer-file-coding-system
in mail-setup-hook, or by replacing the hard-coded "iso-2022-jp"
default in
vm-determine-proper-charset.  See that function in vm-mime.el

-- 
Kevin

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