Re: [VM] Non-ASCII ISO-8859-1 characters not shown correctly
Uday Reddy wrote (on Wednesday, 2 Jan 2013, at 09:49:10 +): Yoshiharu Kohayakawa writes: Because of the problem of MS email clients with windows1252 charsets, the variable vm-fsfemacs-mule-p was set to nil in my .vm. Glad that you have found the problem! Many many thanks for the help! vm-fsfemacs-mule-p is an internal variable of VM. Please don't change it. OK. The only problem with MS email clients was that they used to incorrectly label windows-1252 as iso-8859-1. But I haven't seen this problem for a while. So it is likely that they fixed it. If so, nothing special is needed for handling windows-1252 any more. Very good. This subject line problem in Summary buffer is also fixed now. However, this fix for the Summary buffer only works for plain text messages. For a message sent in rich text mode, the subject line shows the octal codes. It might be a problem with cached-data. If so, typing `j' (`vm-discard-cached-data') should fix the problem. Excellent---it did solve the problem (but see below). There are still some outstanding problems with the cached-data handling, which will be fixed in 8.2.0 release. If it is not a cached-data problem, please file a bug report with a sample message. Discarding the cache fixed all subject lines but one. This is a message in utf-8, which I put in the file octal_subject_message at http://www.ime.usp.br/~yoshi/TMP/VM/ I've tried looking at this message with Emacs/VM with default settings, with basically the same result. The behaviour in my two emacses is a little different, though: one of them shows octal code and the other shows the corresponding iso-8895-1 characters. Thanks and best, Yoshi Cheers, Uday
Re: [VM] Non-ASCII ISO-8859-1 characters not shown correctly
Yoshiharu Kohayakawa writes: Discarding the cache fixed all subject lines but one. This is a message in utf-8, which I put in the file octal_subject_message at http://www.ime.usp.br/~yoshi/TMP/VM/ This message is not in correct MIME format. Any non-ASCIi characters in the message headers are required to be MIME-encoded. Here, they are not. VM's treatment of it is therefore correct and the best possible under the circumstances. Cheers, Uday
[VM] Non-ASCII ISO-8859-1 characters not shown correctly
I'd be very interested in learning how to fix the following problem, related to iso-8859-1 characters not showing correctly in messages read with VM. When I receive a message with non-ascii characters and read it with VM, the non-ascii characters don't show properly, and I see their octal code. A screen shot is available at http://www.ime.usp.br/~yoshi/TMP/VM The problem happens in presentation mode with text/plain messages. The example message of the screen shot, filed in a folder on its own, is also at the URL above. I'm on a Mac OS X machine, but I believe this is a problem in GNU/Linux also. I have this problem with VM 8.1.2 running on both GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36) of 2012-08-27 on bob.porkrind.org and GNU Emacs 23.3.50.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.8.0, NS apple-appkit-949.54) of 2011-10-25 on braeburn.aquamacs.org - Aquamacs Distribution 2.4 I don't have this problem with VM 7.19 running on GNU Emacs 21.2.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2006-05-09 on galena.ime.usp.br If I cut and paste the message into a new plain text file and save it with the latin-1 coding system, then when I visit the file I can see the characters correctly (such a file is at the URL above also). One more thing: non-ascii characters are also shown in octal in my summary buffers, when they are in the subject line of the messages. I'd really love to know how to solve this. Many thank in advance! Yoshi -- Yoshiharu Kohayakawa
