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[Manoj <srivasta@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Dec 05 2009, Uday Reddy wrote:

> Manoj, I have now verified that Emacs 22 and 23 handle Windows-1252
> characters perfectly fine.  There is no need to put 'windows-1252 in the
> vm-mime-default-face-charsets variable.  In fact, putting it there
> inhibits the proper handling of the non-ascii characters in the Windows
> character set.
>
> Our recommendation of setting the vm-mime-default-face-charsets is
> therefore only meant for XEmacs users.

        So for emacs23,  one can just leave it nil? I can make it so
 that on Debian systems the default can be the list as on the mailing
 list, and for emacs23 the default could be nil, if that is the guidance
 we are getting.

        manoj
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vm: vm is fooled by Windows encoding
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490027
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Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs: In Progress
Status in “vm” package in Debian: Fix Released

Bug description:
Package: vm
Version: 8.0.12
Severity: wishlist

It appears that one of the OS X email apps, and/or possibly other Windows
mailers, insist on adding a 'something-or-other-1252' encoding to messages.

When that happens, VM refuses to show me the message body.  Editing the
message and manuall removing the encoding flag is all it takes.  It is silly
that I have to do that by hand -- VM should simply be told to ignore said 
encoding.