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

[Jan Djärv]

Eli Zaretskii skrev 2010-12-31 17.07:
> > Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:22:56 +0100
> > From: Jan Djärv<jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
> > CC: user.emacs@gmail.com, 7517@debbugs.gnu.org, cyd@stupidchicken.com,
> >   monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >
> >                       (generate-new-buffer
> >                        (format "edit of %s's note re: %s"
> >                                (vm-su-full-name (car vm-message-pointer))
> >                                (vm-su-subject (car vm-message-pointer)))))
>
> So I guess VM holds the message in its undecoded (external) format?
> If so, it should do this:
>
>                        (format "edit of %s's note re: %s"
>                                (decode-coding-string
>                                  (vm-su-full-name (car vm-message-pointer))
>                                  SOMETHING)
>                                (decode-coding-string
>                                  (vm-su-subject (car vm-message-pointer))
>                                  SOMETHING))
>
> Quite what to use for SOMETHING depends on whether VM knows the
> encoding of the message.  If it does, it should use that; otherwise
> using `undecided' should DTRT in most cases.

But not in this case.  The given string is not decoded right with undecided. 
detect-coding-string doesn't list iso-8859-8.  I think choosing between 
iso-8859-x is difficult.  Still, VM should know the coding used.

        Jan D.