Re: [MIT-Scheme-users] imail utf-8 Characters

[David Gray]

I use 'w' to save and then use emacs to open and also the generic editor on 
OSX. If I forward it to mu4e in emacs the message looks fine.
Here is an example for you to try:

Γεια σου, Ντέιβ,
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> On 27 Apr 2016, at 17:47, Taylor R Campbell <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>  Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 09:46:42 +0300
>  From: David Gray <address@hidden>
> 
>  I get occasional email in Greek and imail makes a real hash of
>  displaying this. I expected this after following the discussion on
>  utf-8 sequences before. My question is is there a way to save this
>  to read in another editor? If I forward the message it can be read
>  OK, but not if saved. Does the forward just bypass edwin altogether
>  using the message on the server and that's why it works?
> 
> How are you saving it and how are you reading it?  If you write the
> message body with `w', you should get a plain text file with exactly
> the encoding the message sender specified.  Of course, the text editor
> with which you open it will have to guess the encoding correctly since
> plain text files have no metadata.