Charset Support for Emacs

charset.el is an extension for Emacs that makes TM and RMIME handle character sets of received messages automatically as long as the MIME headers contain accurate information. For instance, in GNU Emacs 19.34, running under X and with Western-European, Eastern-European and Cyrillic fonts, a message might look as follows:

The same message, displayed in a terminal with only ASCII available, would appear in readable ASCII transliterations:

The package also works in XEmacs (XEmacs is a variant of Emacs; the `X' stands for `pretty'):

Right now, the headers are displayed (almost) right.

Better charset support is provided by Mule (Multi-Lingual Emacs), the version of Emacs with support for asiatic languages. Currently, Mule is a variant of GNU Emacs; Mule and XEmacs will be merged in XEmacs 20.0, but you can already have a glimpse of the future.

Charset can be found in this tar ball. It sometimes even works.

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J. Chroboczek