[mew-int 2670] Re: How to save attachment with different encoding (for filename)

Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 ) kazu at example.com
Mon Jan 19 16:29:31 JST 2009


Hello,

>    I am getting comfortable with using Mew in my Linux box. Now, one
>    issue needs your help.  My Linux box language encoding is "UTF-8"
>    (default), and my Mew is set to Big5. I can read mail very
>    well. But when I get some mail with file attachment which is
>    named with Big5 file name. If I save it directly, and use Linux
>    file browser to list the saved file, the file name is
>    unreadable. Any tips to solve this issue.

I think this is not an issue of Mew.

What you want to know is how to specify file names with UTF-8 on
Emacs, I guess.  Please put the following to your ".emacs".

  (set-file-name-coding-system 'utf-8)

--Kazu



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