Forwarding a mail, with a non-ASCII signature

[David Edmondson]

On Sun, Nov 16 2014, Lele Gaifax wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> as you can see below, my signature contains some non-ASCII characters,
> and it is stored as UTF-8 (I have `(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)` in my
> .emacs.el) in my home as ~/.signature.
>
> Recently I started using notmuch with Emacs as the main MUA, using
> message-mode to send emails. I'm *very* satisfied, BTW!
>
> Everything works great, except that when I "forward" an email message:
> in that case, the "*unsent mail*" buffer contains the original message
> within a "#mml" tag, followed by my signature, apparently appended as
> binary (e.g. instead of "vivrò" I see "vivr\303\262"). When I try to
> send it, I get the "Unreadable characters" prompt...
>
> I quickly inspected what notmuch-show-forward-message does, but AFAICT
> it does very little, delegating most of the work to message-mode: but
> doing the same from Gnus works ok, so I must be missing something.
>
> I also tried tweaking the message-default-charset, changing it from nil
> to utf-8, with the very same result.
>
> I'm using Emacs 24.4.51 compiled a few days ago, if that matters.

How do you insert the signature? That is, do you have some bits of
configuration that add the signature to outgoing messages?

> Thank you for any hint,
> ciao, lele.
> -- 
> nickname: Lele Gaifax | Quando vivrò di quello che ho pensato ieri
> real: Emanuele Gaifas | comincerò ad aver paura di chi mi copia.
> lele at metapensiero.it  |                 -- Fortunato Depero, 1929.
>
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