New question #242334 on VM:
https://answers.launchpad.net/vm/+question/242334
My vm-8.2.0b setup uses "lynx" to read and convert MIME type text/html to
display html messages inline.
This works fine when Emacs is run in a graphical frame. However, when I run
Emacs in a terminal (e.g., under PuTTY), I get a lot of A-umlaut characters
wherever there is a non-standard character (e.g., quotations, double space,
etc.).
I was able to replicate this by passing the html part manually in a (non-Emacs)
shell by piping the html onto lynx using:
lynx -force_html -dump -stdin
I found that I could make the A-umlauts go away by adding the following switch
to lynx:
-assume_charset=utf-8
Now the interesting thing is that the MIME part does have:
Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
But clearly the charset is not detected and/or passed on to lynx by vm-mime.el
I imagine that the reason that the display works fine in a graphical frame but
not in a terminal is that graphical Emacs has stronger character fu logic to
decode non-standard ASCII characters.
So, my questions are:
1. Is this a bug?
2. If not, am I doing something wrong? And what should I be doing to make the
display work right in a terminal
3. More generally, should the lynx command line referenced in vm-mime.el be set
to a variable (or alternatively should the switches be defined in a variable)
so that one can twiddle with the exact switches sent to lynx.
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