Subject: Re: bug#7517: 24.0.50; repeated crash under Mac OS X

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:00:36 +0200

> Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 23:30:31 +0100
> From: Jan Djärv <[email-masked]>
> CC: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>, 
>  Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,
>  [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], 
>  "Uday S. Reddy" <[email-masked]>
> 
> Is the coding for these kind of strings known?

It might be: the string could have a `charset' text property on it.

Other than that, I think VM should try to decide the encoding from the
context, such as the encoding of the message body.  (Of course, I'm
talking out of sheer ignorance about VM, so apologies if this happens
to be hogwash.)