I have been using VM since late 90's and I am very happy to see that
it's once again on the move! :)
On Emacs 23.1.1 (macosx 10.5.8) I have a problem to see non-ascii
characters (they get garbled) when
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
and
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
I wonder if this is really a VM error, when editing the latter email-
header to quoted-printable on can see the characters as they should
be. Someone got some thoughts about this?
By the way, I am currently using VM 8.1 development version rev 617
but the error is also in 8.0.12 and 8.0.13 (swapped to 8.1 due to bug
#453351 and #322735).
yours,
/robert
> On Emacs 23.1.1 (macosx 10.5.8) I have a problem to see non-ascii
> characters (they get garbled) when ...
Hi Robert, thanks for participating here. The revision 617 includes all
the patches I have for handling binary/8bit content. So, please do file
a bug report on launchpad, and attach a sample message or two that cause
problems. It would also be useful to know if these problems are present
with Emacs 22.
Cheers,
Uday
Gosh, it took me a couple of readings to understand what you were saying. If you change the content-transfer-encoding to quoted-printable, then the characters come out ok? Well, yeah, that means that the message reached you with a wrong header.
If you can tell us which mailer generated the message (look for an X-Mailer header line or other clues) we can try and see if other people have noticed similar problems with the mailer.
Cheers,
Uday
X-Mailer does not exist but User-Agent states
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213)
and
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812)
so I need to do some additional testing... install Thunderbird and get
back to you with the result
yours,
/robert
Ah forgot to mention that it only seems to happen when they reply to
my emails, so therefore I am slightly concerned... but I will try find
time to do some additional testing
yours,
/robert
If you save the message to a file, and visit it in Emacs as a plain text file, do the characters appear correctly? Does the buffer-file-coding-system say utf-8?
Cheers,
Uday
> On Emacs 23.1.1 (macosx 10.5.8) I have a problem to see non-ascii
> characters (they get garbled) when
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>
> and
>
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> I wonder if this is really a VM error, when editing the latter email-
> header to quoted-printable on can see the characters as they should
> be. Someone got some thoughts about this?
Perchance, I received today a message sent from our webmail system, which had "8bit" encoding, and VM failed to display it correctly. When I changed the encoding header to quoted-printable, it displayed correctly. However, the characters were not actually encoded. So, VM is indeed behaving strangely.
This is happening when the entire message body is in utf-8 with "8bit" encoding. When one of the MIME parts is in utf-8 with "8bit" encoding, VM seems to deal with it ok.
I will register a bug report.
Thanks,
Uday
> Perchance, I received today a message sent from our webmail system, which had "8bit" encoding, and VM failed to display it correctly. When I changed the encoding header to quoted-printable, it displayed correctly. However, the characters were not actually encoded. So, VM is indeed behaving strangely.
>
> This is happening when the entire message body is in utf-8 with "8bit" encoding. When one of the MIME parts is in utf-8 with "8bit" encoding, VM seems to deal with it ok.
>
> I will register a bug report.
Great then I will not persue the additional testing. Good work!
yours,
/robert
>
> Great then I will not persue the additional testing. Good work!
Some more progress. If you are using any custom setting for
vm-mime-default-face-charsets or any other related variable, can you
remove those settings, and see if the UTF-8 display works?
(I tracked my problem down to this variable.)
Cheers,
Uday
Yes, after setting it to nil VM displays the characters correctly.
Thank you!
yours,
/robert
ps. I tried to post a reply with gnus (too much spam on google groups)
using news-server news.gnus.org but it does not show... sorry if you
get two messages from me with similar contents. :P