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

Ulrich Müller writes:

> I can confirm that the problem occurs if I include "utf-8" in vm-mime-
> default-face-charsets.
> 
> However, I wonder if such a setting makes sense, since utf-8 is not a
> character set, but an encoding scheme.

If it doesn't make sense, then it shouldn't have had any effect!

I actually didn't have "utf-8" included as a charset.  I had set the
variable to t, which means include all charsets.  That had the same
effect too.

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#