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Article #992Re: Can't find a coding system for charset unknown - error
From: Viktor Haag
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 17:14
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 17:14
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kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones) writes:
> Robert Marshall <robert@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> > I've can get the error
> > Can't find a coding system for charset unknown
[snip]
> 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
>
> (set-language-environment "Latin-1").
I have the same problem, the same versions of the software, and
currently have this form in my .emacs:
;;; set language environment
(let ((default-enable-multibyte-characters nil))
(set-language-environment "Latin-1"))
> Let me know if that makes a difference.
>
> 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))
Hmmm ... I'll try that out too, thanks, Kyle.
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