Re: charset messed up when sending messages

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From: Kyle Jones
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 18:34

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Emmanuel Beffara <emmanuel@beffara.org> wrote:
 > I am encountering a strange behaviour with VM (my version is 7.01 on
 > Emacs version 21.1): when I recieve mail encoded in charset
 > iso-8859-15, it displays without any problem. When I want to answer to
 > it (quoting the original message), I get the correct characters in the
 > input buffer. However, when sending the answer, it gets re-encoded in
 > charset iso-2022-jp. Not only does this disturb the people I answer to
 > (most people in Europe don't need support for Japanese encodings,
 > after all), but also VM itself is unable to read correctly the copy of
 > the message it sends.
 > 
 > Would anyone know how to fix this?

I don't think it's fixable without hacking the code.  I think the
kludge fix is to edit vm-determine-proper-charset and replace
iso-2022-jp with whatever charset you want to use.  UTF-7 and UTF-8 are
better choices for messages that contain multiple character sets,
but Emacs doesn't have full support for those coding systems yet.

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