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From: Oscar Figueiredo <Oscar.Figueiredo@di.epfl.ch>
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Subject: Re: State of VM + XEmacs/Mule
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>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:

  Martin> Reading mail with VM+TM containing non-latin-1 characters is a
  Martin> dangerous operation in XEmacs 20.0. [...]

  Martin> The bottom line is that VM+TM is currently unusable if you
  Martin> get non-latin-1 mail, and this is something that needs to be
  Martin> addressed in future VM software, hopefully in XEmacs 20.1,
  Martin> due out before summer
  Martin> 1997.  I don't know whether VM 6 sans TM, or VM+TM+vm-tm8 will be the
  Martin> solution, but both must address the encoding problem.  (I have not
  Martin> used either VM6 or tm-vm8 yet.)

Well I am currently trying to reproduce the behaviour you describe but
with no success. I am using XEmacs 20.0 (latest available to this
date) with VM 6.13 and tm-vm 8.8. I successfully read some mails from
Tomohiko that I had archived. If I understand you well however, the
problem occurs when receiving new japanese mail in a japanese
environment, so I tried to resend some of the archived japanese mails
to myself but here again I read them successfully... So I tried to
compose a fresh new japanese mail in a japanese environement
but... how the hell does one compose a japanese mail in XEmacs 20.0
???  I didn't find a single little piece of information in the
installed docs, so after digging in the distribution tree for a while
I found some texi files about quail and mule that do not even compile
correctly with makeinfo. I tried to turn on quail (which unlike Egg
does not seem to require additional software) but had several errors.
My question is: how do I input multi-lingual characters ? Does XEmacs
20.0 provide a simple way to do that without additional installations.

I think that, before any attempt at a public release, a serious effort
should be made on the documentation of mule features. Mule isn't even
mentioned in the XEmacs manual.

Oscar

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