[mew-int 2979] Re: encoding bug in summary

Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:15:18 +0900 (JST)
Newsgroups gmane.mail.mew.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

> Please have a look at the forwarded spam mail and a partial snapshot
> of my Emacs frame (compiled 2011-02-24 from bzr sources).  As you can
> see, mew selects an incorrect encoding for displaying the body's
> snippet within the summary, while the encoding is correct in the
> message window itself.

I confirmed that this happens only on Emacs 24. 

Mew uses Compound Text encoding of X Window System for Summary. This
is for historical reasons. While UTF8/Unicode is getting more popular,
Emacs tends to forget supporting Compound Text.

Probably Mew needs to switch from Compound Text to UTF8.

--Kazu