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Article #850Re: problem with charsets
From: Kevin Rodgers
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 01:12
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`? -- <a href="mailto:<kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>">Kevin Rodgers</a>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6829,428f32d9799f52fb X-Google-Attributes: gidf6829,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-11 17:12:49 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.rodgers@ihs.com> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug Subject: Re: problem with charsets Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:12:52 -0700 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3E6E8994.40004@ihs.com> References: <b4lrft$1v96$1@nef.ens.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1047431567 68335985 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us