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Re: Can't find a coding system for charset unknown - error

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From: Robert Marshall
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:33

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On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Kyle Jones wrote:
> Robert Marshall  <robert@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>  > I've can get the error
>  > Can't find a coding system for charset unknown
>  > 
>  > when attempting to send email. This is with emacs 21.1 and vm
>  > 7.01 (though I think I've seen it in earlier version of vm). I
>  > can replicate this by creating an email which contains, in its
>  > body, text pasted from netscape
> 
> My guess is that characters that arrive via X selection are
> categorized as an unknown character set.  They might default
> to iso-8859-1 instead if you use
> 

It also seems to depend upon the web page (this is with Windows98)

> (set-language-environment "Latin-1").
> 
> Let me know if that makes a difference.
> 

No, this had no effect

> Also, try this in your .vm file and see if this helps.
> 
> (add-to-list 'vm-mime-mule-charset-to-coding-alist
>              '("unknown" no-conversion))
> 
> If it does, then this is what VM will do by default.

This however works, thanks!

R
-- 
Poetry's not window cleaning.
It breaks the glass.
-- Chase Twichell

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arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!powertec-bk.u-net.COM!not-for-mail

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From: Robert Marshall <spam@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Can't find a coding system for charset unknown - error
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 08:33:38 +0000
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