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

 

Dear Malte,

This bug report that you have filed is in limbo because more
information is needed from you.  

If it is important, can you please subscribe to the bug report on
Launchpad so that we can progress it quickly?

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/vm/+bug/538736

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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