From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday S Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Message/Mail Mode and UTF-8 Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 02:31:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87d3y0xrxl.fsf@rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273077095 17314 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 16:31:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 16:31:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 18:31:33 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9hVS-0005G7-TJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 18:31:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50585 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9hRK-00007f-NV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 12:27:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Xy3-0004Zn-NW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 02:20:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33126 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Xy2-0004Pk-7O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 02:20:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9Xxq-0005yu-BM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 02:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:39302) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9Xxq-0005yY-4V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 02:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9Xxk-0006Sq-2h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 08:20:04 +0200 Original-Received: from cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com ([92.232.137.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2010 08:20:04 +0200 Original-Received: from u.s.reddy by cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 05 May 2010 08:20:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpc10-harb6-0-0-cust112.perr.cable.virginmedia.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: <87d3y0xrxl.fsf@rapttech.com.au> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73464 Archived-At: On 4/15/2010 11:38 PM, Tim X wrote: > Chris Yocum writes: > >> While I have used emacs for a while as a text editor, etc. I am now >> using VM 8.1.0 in emacs to compose and send mail as well. I noticed >> that when I composed mail in either Message or Mail Mode that the MIME >> attributes stated that I was sending a charset of us-ascii and I would >> really like to send my mails with utf-8 set as the character set. >> Does anyone know the magic incantation to get Mail/Message Mode to do >> that? I am using EMACS 23.1.1 on amd64 Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). >> Thank you all very much in advance. >> > > I'm not sure that is a good idea. From memory, the RFCs for mail specify > messages should be 7 or possibly 8 bit. If you must use UTF-8, you > probably have to set things up to send as MIME. Most mail servers will > probalby handle UTF-8 fine, its the occasional one that doesn't which > will cause things to go weird. [This is funny. I can see your response in gmane, but not Chris's original query.] I think Chris just wants to use Unicode characters. He wouldn't mind if the messages get MIME-encoded. Chris, the VM variable to set is `vm-mime-8bit-composition-charset'. See the VM manual section on "Sending Messages" -> "MIME composition". By the way, VM uses mail-mode. There is a plan to switch it to message-mode, but that won't happen for a while yet. Cheers, Uday