Ralf Fassel writes: > The umlaut-a has been replaced by a space. If I run the text manually > through w3m, the ouput still contains the utf-8 character, just the > HTML-markup is gone. But after inserting in the Presentation buffer the > umlaut is changed to a space.
The first thing to check would be whether it is a problem with Emacs. What happens if you put the w3m output in a file and visit it in Emacs? If it is not a problem with Emacs, then it must be a bug in VM. Please file a bug report along with a sample message. Cheers, Uday