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

Manoj writes:

>         For our purposes, we need only be concerned with the non-stable
>  versions of Debian, since  vm is unlikely to be allowed through the
>  stable gateway by the release managers. So, Debian unstable  and
>  testing have:
>   emacs22
>   emacs23
>   xemacs21

I have verified that Emacs 22.2 and 23.1 have built-in support for
Windows-1252 and VM invokes it out of the box.  No change of settings
needed.  So the problem reported by the original poster shouldn't
arise.  It must be that he/she is using some other version of Emacs.

In any case, the answer to his question "VM should simply be told to
ignore said encoding," is what we have given earlier.  By putting
'windows-1252 in vm-mime-default-face-charsets, VM ignores the
encoding.

Cheers,
Uday

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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.