[Mailman-i18n] "Funny" characters in real names?

Ben Gertzfield che@debian.org
Fri, 04 Oct 2002 15:25:51 -0700


Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

>I have one nit that I'm not sure how to address though.  I use VM in a
>MULE-ified XEmacs to read my mail and it has pretty good header
>decoding routines.  If the charset is provided, it'll show me the real
>characters in a presentation buffer.  However, it needs help for
>utf-8.
>

I used MULE and xemacs (with Gnus) for years to read my email, but I was 
never able to find a solution for UTF-8 headers.  If you do end up 
finding one, please let the list know ;)

The real problem is that MULE has a very hard-coded base on ISO-2022, 
and just grafting on UTF-8 is very, very hard.

There is a MULE-UCS package for Unicode support, but the last time I 
tried to use it it barfed hard.  If you can get it installed, it seems 
all you need is:

(if (locate-library "un-define") (require 'un-define))
in your ~/.xemacs/init.el.

See:

http://lists.suse.com/archive/m17n/2002-May/0016.html

Ben