Re: mail-mode: still guessing big5 in utf-8 environment?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Why does this still send big5 encoded messages, even though the
> modeline says "u" meaning utf-8?
> $ emacs -Q
> C-x m (runs the command compose-mail)
> enter some Chinese subject and body, and hit C-c C-c to send.
>
> env was
> LANG=zh_TW.utf8
> LC_COLLATE=C
> LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.utf8
> LC_MESSAGES=C
> address@hidden
>
> I notice if I first write the buffer, and then send it, it gets sent
> as utf-8, as I wished. Also message-mode doesn't have the problem,
> only mail-mode.
>
> Is it detecting that xcin is somehow big5 related?

In the *mail* buffer, after you've inserted the Chinese text, what does
`M-: (select-message-coding-system) RET' print in the echo area?

For whatever symbol FOO it prints, what does
`M-: (coding-system-get 'FOO 'mime-charset) RET' print?

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Kevin