==============MESSAGE BODY============== ================================================================ Dear Bug Team! When using "VM" to view HTML-formatted email sent by people using MS Outlook, I get MIME translation errors. The MS Exchange Server formats the HTML with entities like "&#8217;" which w3 (as invoked by VM to display the html) does not know how to display. Not knowing how to display garbage like that is fine IMHO, but it should (and tries to) choose a reasonable fallback but it fails instead. The error code received is: (wrong-type-argument char-or-string-p 8217) SOLUTION: The mule-make-iso-character function in mule-sysdp.el (from the w3 package in /usr/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/lisp/w3) erroneously returns the input *integer* value if it cannot determine a valid translation for the character entity value. The result is passed to char-to-string which apparently cannot take an integer > 127 as input. The fix is: (defun mule-make-iso-character (char) (if (<= char 127) char (case mule-sysdep-version (2.3 (make-character lc-ltn1 char)) (2.4 (make-char charset-latin-iso8859-1 char)) (3.0 (make-char 'latin-iso8859-1 char)) ((4.0 4.1) (if default-enable-multibyte-characters (make-char 'latin-iso8859-1 char) (format "<<%d>>" char))) (xemacs (format "<<%d>>" char)) (otherwise (format "<<%d>>" char))))) ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux kquick.surgient.com 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 #6 Wed Jan 15 16:48:47 CST 2003 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux ./configure '--with-widgets=motif' '--with-dialogs=motif' '--with-scrollbars=motif' '--with-menubars=lucid' '--with-gif=no' '--without-tiff' '--with-jpeg' '--without-xface' '--with-gpm' '--without-postgresql' '--with-sound=native' '--prefix=/usr' '--with-pop' '--with-ncurses' '--with-msw=no' '--mail-locking=flock' '--with-database=gnudbm' '--pdump' '--with-site-lisp=yes' XEmacs 21.4.10 "Military Intelligence" configured for `i686-pc-linux'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /var/tmp/portage/xemacs-21.4.10-r1/work/xemacs-21.4.10 Installation prefix: /usr Operating system description file: `s/linux.h' Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' Compiler: gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: yes - Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library. Window System: Compiling in support for the X window system: - X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include - X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib - Handling WM_COMMAND properly. Using Lucid menubars. Using Motif scrollbars. Using Motif dialog boxes. Using Motif native widgets. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in support for GPM (General Purpose Mouse). Images: Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Sound: Compiling in support for sound (native). Databases: Compiling in support for GNU DBM. Internationalization: Mail: Compiling in support for POP mail retrieval. Compiling in support for "flock" mail spool file locking method. Other Features: Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup. Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules. Using the new portable dumper. 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subprocesses modules menu-accelerator-support menubar dbm md5 xemacs gutter png jpeg xpm xbm lisp-float-type linux dialog devices window-system base64) Recent keystrokes: ----------------- C-p C-e M-b ( C-x C-w / t m p / m u l e - s y s d p . e l RET ( f o r m a t SPC " < < % d > > " SPC C-e ) C-n M-b ( f o r m a t SPC " < < % d > > " SPC C-e ) C-n M-b ( f o r m a t SPC " < < % d > > " SPC C-e ) C-x C-e D D D C-x C-s C-x 1 C-x 2 M-< g misc-use r Recent messages (most recent first): ----------------------------------- Parsing /home/kquick/.mailrc... Loading xemacsbug...done Loading xemacsbug... No new mail for /home/kquick/mail/Inboxes/SurgientINBOX Checking for new mail for /home/kquick/mail/Inboxes/SurgientINBOX... Wrote /tmp/mule-sysdp.el Decoding MIME message... done Inlining text/html... done Drawing... done Drawing... \ Drawing... / Parsed 100% of 34526...done Parsed 96% of 34526... Parsed 89% of 34526... Parsed 87% of 34526... Parsed 85% of 34526... Parsed 83% of 34526... Parsed 81% of 34526... Parsed 79% of 34526... Parsed 77% of 34526... -- ________________________________________________________________________ Kevin Quick Surgient Networks Project UDI kevin.quick(a)surgient.com Austin, Texas Editor +1 512 241 4801 www.surgient.com www.projectudi.org