** Branch linked: lp:vm/8.1.x -- Wrong charset for outgoing mail under Emacs 23 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/430521 You received this bug notification because you are a member of VM development team, which is the registrant for VM (defunct).
Status in VM - Goto http://launchpad.net/vm for active development: Fix Released Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs: Fix Committed Bug description: [Already reported at gnu.emacs.vm.bug] For an outgoing message containing only latin-1 characters, e.g. German umlauts, VM 8.0.12 under GNU Emacs 23 (both in their default configuration) will use "iso-2022-jp" as encoding. That is not a reasonable default. The same VM version under GNU Emacs 22 will correctly encode the message with "iso-8859-1". Investigating the problem, I've found two problems in function vm-determine-proper-charset: 1. The keys of vm-mime-mule-coding-to-charset-alist are symbols, not strings. So the following assq (occuring in similar form in the code four times) will always fail, because vm-coding-system-name returns a string: (assq (vm-coding-system-name sys) vm-mime-mule-coding-to-charset-alist) The call to vm-coding-system-name should just be omitted and its argument used directly instead. 2. Function vm-charsets-in-region is aliased to find-charset-region. In Emacs 23, there really aren't separate character sets any more, and find-charset-region will return the first match from charset-priority-list. In Emacs's default configuration, this can only be a subset of (iso-8859-1 ascii unicode). I believe that in Emacs 23 it's much easier to determine the proper coding system by calling check-coding-systems-region. The detour via character sets seems no longer necessary. I attach a patch for vm-mime.el that should fix both problems. It is against 8.0.12, but should also apply to the current BZR trunk. (I didn't fix indentation of the code in all cases, in order to keep the patch small and human-readable.) Unfortunately, the patch adds yet another case distinction. However, I don't see how this could be avoided. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~vm Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~vm More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
