[mew-int 2980] Re: encoding bug in summary

>> 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.

I misunderstood. This is just a bug of Emacs 24. 
Please forget language about Compound Text above.

--Kazu