Uday Reddy wrote (on Tuesday, 1 Jan 2013, at 21:18:10 +0000): > Yoshiharu Kohayakawa writes: > > > 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 first thing to check would be what happens with the default settings. > Rename your .vm file to something else, restart Emacs/VM and visit the > folder.
Dear Uday, this is embarrassing---this is something I didn't try. > If it works, ... it does work. > then you need to narrow down which setting in your .vm > file is problematic. If you are just upgrading from 7.19, then there might > have been quite a few changes since then. Please read through the NEWS file > for the list of all the changes and new features. I'll do that---many thanks. > > 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. > > This sounds more serious. Please check the value of > `enable-multibyte-characters' in the Summary buffer. Its value should be > `t'. I get the following: ==== enable-multibyte-characters is a variable defined in `C source code'. Its value is t Local in buffer INBOX Summary; global value is t Automatically becomes buffer-local when set in any fashion. ==== I've also posted a comment on what happens if I do vm-reply-include-text, namely, that the octal codes show up. This was also some .vm setting problem, i.e., it's fixed if I don't have any .vm. Many thanks and best wishes for 2013! Yoshi > You might need to worry about bad settings in your .emacs file as well. > > Cheers, > Uday
