Re: Sending Japanese mail in VM

[Viktor Pavlenko <vp@example.com>]

>>>>> "SC" == Simon Cozens <simon@example.com> writes:

    SC> I'd like to send some mail in Japanese to my favourite penpal,
    SC> Mayumi Sasaki, but VM is stopping me. I assumed that I could
    SC> merely compose a message in VM with canna turned on and it
    SC> would do the rest. Now when I try to send the message, it
    SC> says:

    SC>     You're trying to send a message that contains characters
    SC>     in the following character set:

    SC>         japanese-jisx0208

    SC>     This characters cannot be sent without proper
    SC>     encoding. Please consider using a MIME enabled mail
    SC>     composer (such as `message').  Continuing is likely to
    SC>     cause mail corruption.

    SC> And I notice my message has been replaced by a bunch of
    SC> MIME-escaped =XXs. What do I do?

What is your VM version? Just tried to send a message to myself having
typed it with `japanese' input method (select it with ^X-RET-^\ -- in
emacs, I assume you use emacs, do you?) -- worked fine.

As far as I know MIME support in VM is pretty good these days, no need
for tm any more.

Viktor