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[Uday Reddy <u.s.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ulrich Müller writes:

> No problem here, both messages display flawlessly with Emacs 23 and VM
> trunk version.

This is stranger than I thought.  With the default value of
vm-mime-default-face-charsets, which has only "us-ascii", the messages
get mime-decoded and displayed correctly.  But if the
default-face-charsets include "utf-8" then they are not displayed
correctly.  Why should this be so?

Cheers,
Uday

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8bit UTF-8 body not being displayed correctly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/491523
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Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs: Confirmed

Bug description:
Robert Andersson reports:

> On Emacs 23.1.1 (macosx 10.5.8) I have a problem to see non-ascii
> characters (they get garbled) when
> 
>  Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> 
> and
> 
>  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
> I wonder if this is really a VM error, when editing the latter email-
> header to quoted-printable on can see the characters as they should
> be. Someone got some thoughts about this?

Perchance, I received today a message sent from our webmail system, which had "8bit" encoding, and VM failed to display it correctly.  When I changed the encoding header to quoted-printable, it displayed correctly.  However, the characters were not actually encoded.  So, VM is indeed behaving strangely.  

This is happening when the entire message body is in utf-8 with "8bit" encoding.  When one of the MIME parts is in utf-8 with "8bit" encoding, VM seems to deal with it ok.  

http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.vm.info/browse_thread/thread/3d9d0e630e0b4e4f#