The assorted finds of Artefact Publishing
If you are having trouble sending UTF-8-encoded email using Emacs and VM, the following configuration in your .vm may help:
(setq vm-send-using-mime t)
(setq vm-mime-default-face-charsets t)
(setq vm-mime-8bit-composition-charset "utf-8")
(setq vm-mime-8bit-text-transfer-encoding 'base64)
(setq vm-mime-mule-charset-to-charset-alist
(cons '(mule-unicode-0100-24ff "utf-8")
vm-mime-mule-charset-to-charset-alist))
(setq vm-mime-mule-charset-to-charset-alist
(cons '(ipa "utf-8")
vm-mime-mule-charset-to-charset-alist))
Apparently you should be able to leave out “(setq vm-mime-8bit-composition-charset "utf-8")”, but some have reported that that is still necessary. The last setq is only necessary if you do a bunch of stuff with IPA characters in it.
Anyway, this fixed the issue whereby my mail would be sent with an unknown charset and in 7bit, and consequently garbled.
Posted by jamie on December 1, 2005 10:10+13:00