Martin> Am 27.03.2011 17:06, schrieb s...@pobox.com:
    >> It seems that all checkin mails are utf-8-encoded.  This makes it
    >> challenging to view checkin mails if you have a text-based mail
    >> reader.  (I use VM within XEmacs.  XEmacs doesn't seem to support
    >> utf-8 out of the box.  I believe you need to add MULE to it.)  Is
    >> there some reason such messages can't be encoded in ASCII unless a
    >> non-ASCII message body is detected?

    Martin> Even if it was easy to change, I'd advise against doing
    Martin> so. IIUC, we use the standard email hook from the Mercurial
    Martin> sources, to change it would mean to fork it. Users with email
    Martin> readers that can't display UTF-8 at all (even if the characters
    Martin> are all ASCII) will need to find a way of coping with that.

That's fine.  I was just asking.  

I guess I have my work cut out for me.  It appears my preferred mail reader,
VM, is not supported out-of-the-box by GNU Emacs (they still use Rmail and
Babyl for some reason), and I'm not sure the investment trying to get XEmacs
built with MULE is worth the effort.

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