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Re: VM-BUG: Filename encoding for external viewer inconsistent

 

Hi Malte,

Good to hear from you.  Hope all is well with you!

I have assigned your bug report to Ulrich Mueller, who will get back
to you when it is resolved.

Cheers,
Uday

Malte Plath writes:

> Hi,
> 
> after finally configuring some external viewers for VM in NTEmacs,
> I noticed that the encoding used for saving the temporary file and
> that for calling the program to display it are not consistent.  (Well,
> it may be an inconsistency in Windows...)
> 
> The filename of the saved file was effectively windows-1252 (default
> in German Windows XP) as you can see in the explorer window in the
> screen shot.  Apparently the viewer (IrfanView [i_view32.exe] in this
> case) was called with a UTF-8 string, though.
> 
> The content description in the original mail was: | Content-Type: image/jpeg;
> name*=ISO-8859-1''Verpuffende%20Fernw%E4rme.jpg | Content-Disposition:
> attachment; filename*=ISO-8859-1''Verpuffende%20Fernw%E4rme.jpg |
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 The text part of the original mail was
> encoded as UTF-8.
> 
> Attachment: Screenshot of image file in Explorer and error message of
> viewer program.



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