Yoshiharu Kohayakawa wrote (on Tuesday, 1 Jan 2013, at 20:00:54 -0200): > Uday Reddy wrote (on Tuesday, 1 Jan 2013, at 21:18:10 +0000): > > Yoshiharu Kohayakawa writes: > > [...] > > > 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.
Because of the problem of MS email clients with windows1252 charsets, the variable vm-fsfemacs-mule-p was set to nil in my .vm. Removing this fixed the problem. > > > 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. > ==== 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. > 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. Leaving vm-fsfemacs-mule-p as t, I don't have this problem any longer. Thanks and best, Yoshi
