** Changed in: vm
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
** Changed in: viewmail
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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Display of UTF-8 encoded messages on tty fails for GNU Emacs
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/453351
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Status in VM - Goto http://launchpad.net/vm for active development: Fix Released
Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs: Fix Released
Bug description:
In GNU Emacs (version 23.1), VM (version 8.0.12) cannot display UTF-8
mime-encoded messages on a tty. After decoding the message with
vm-decode-mime-message, VM always shows the [Press RETURN to save to a file]
button instead.
This is especially annoying since an increasing number of people send their
mail labelled as UTF-8, even if they contain only characters from ASCII or
ISO-8859-1.
Investigating the reason, I found that function
vm-mime-tty-can-display-mime-charset always returns nil in GNU Emacs (because
function console-tty-output-coding-system doesn't exist).
In my opinion things are over-engineered at this point: If the terminal cannot
display single UTF-8 characters, there is no harm if a replacement character is
displayed for them (and see above, many people are sending ASCII messages
labelled as UTF-8, where display is not a problem). OTOH, for users in
countries with a non-european writing system it is unlikely that the terminal
wouldn't be able to display them.
A patch for vm-mime-charset-internally-displayable-p is attached.
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