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[Ulrich Müller <ulm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Well, I also needed to include "windows-1252" in
> vm-mime-default-charsets for Windows.

Does attached sample message display correctly with with setting? (In
Windows? In Unix/GNU Linux?)

> It seems like a good idea to disallow t as a possible setting for
> this variable.

At least mention in the documentation that by setting it to t you are
likely to shoot yourself in the foot. ;-)

> We should also mention that "utf-8" should not be included here
> because it needs MIME decoding.

Right.


** Attachment added: "Sample message encoded as windows-1252"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36422055/windows-1252-sample.msg

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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#