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Re: problem with charsets

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From: Kevin Rodgers
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 01:12
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Luc Habert wrote:

> I happen to receive e-mails whose charset indicated in the headers does not
> match the actual contents, for instance the mail contains latin-1 characters
> while it is flagged as us-ascii, or windows-125?, while it is flagged as
> latin-1. When I reply to such broken email, and insert latin-1 characters in
> the reply, and eventually send the mail, it gets encoded in iso-2022-jp (I
> guess vm did not convert properly into MULE the incoming mail, so that one
> gets a weird mixture of charsets in the reply, and iso-2022-jp ends up to be
> chosen to encode the whole mess).
> 
> This is not a bug in vm (it is a bug in the MUA of the sender), but it is
> nevertheless a very annoying feature :-). I don't have much spare time these
> days, so I have cowardly decided to post that feature-report instead of
> investigating the issue deeper, I hope you will not blame me for that :-).

What happens if you run VM in `emacs --unibyte`?

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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>
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Subject: Re: problem with charsets
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