I use Emacs to do a lot of work, not only editing files. For example all my email reading and writing I do with Emacs, as well as reading Usenet newsgroups. For email I use VM (viewmail) rather than the standard RMAIL.
One problem that popped up when we got the Euro as a currency was that VM couldn’t deal properly with non-ASCII characters when sending email. When a mixture of different character sets was present in a message a Japanese coding was chosen that most email reader don’t understand. Because I wanted to send emails with the €-sign I cooked up some code to make this work. The code was inspired by similar code in Gnus, the Emacs Usenet reader. (Some people also use gnus for their email but I prefer VM for that.) Read more…
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