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[Ulrich Mueller <ulm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> On Sat, 05 Dec 2009, Uday Reddy wrote:

> Ulrich, It seems that I didn't check everything carefully yesterday.
> Your Windows-1252 message does get displayed correctly if
> 'windows-1252 is NOT included in vm-mime-default-face-charsets.

That's what I thought. Including it shortcuts MIME decoding, so all
characters that have a codepoint different from the one in Unicode are
not displayed correctly. (For windows-1252, this is the range from
0x80 to 0x9f).

> It works in both Emacs 22 and 23, and both Windows and Linux. But,
> if windows-1252 is included in the variable, it doesn't work
> anywhere.

> So, it does look like this variable is pretty much useless now.

Yes, and it has a misleading name. I think that Julian Bradfield's
analysis in gnu.emacs.vm.info <slrnhhkc65.suh.jcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
is quite accurate.

> What do we make of the bug report #490027 now?

At least we need updated documentation for the variable (Julian said
he would come up with a new docstring).

Beyond that, I'm not sure. If we had GNU Emacs 23 only, things could
be much simplified, but I don't know about the situation for XEmacs.

Ulrich