Re: "iconv: illegal input sequence" in VM

Julian Bradfield writes: Thanks Julian! I am now eligible for one "Big Dummy" award :-) I've got some vm-related stuff in my custom.el which I don't completely understand ... cargo-culted from somewhere ... I don't understand Unicode as well as I ought to, perhaps this is an opportunity to learn a few things. I've got vm-mime-charset-converter-alist set to (("utf-8" "iso-8859-1" "iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1")) and vm-mime-default-face-charsets set to ("us-ascii" "iso-8859-1" "iso-8859-2" "iso-8859-15" "windows-1252" "cp932" "ISO-8859-7") Setting vm-mime-charset-converter-alist to nil (the default), the messages in question now show up as attachments: in VM I get a line like this: (icon) plain text, utf-8 [Click mouse-2 to save to a file] If I right-click and do 'display as text in default face', with vm-mime-default-face-charsets set to ("us-ascii", "iso-8859-1") (the default), the attachment displays without the "iconv" warning, but the Unicode chars do not display correctly, as I wrote earlier to Stephen offlist - it shows up like this: •sent from iphone• In case that gets mangled in transmission: the "bullet" char is showing up as lower-case-curcumflex-a, backslash-200, and the "cents" sign. If I copy/paste that string to a terminal (with LANG=en_US.UTF-8) the backslash-200 turns into a Euro symbol. So, I guess my questions are: 1) Should the bullet char (composed of bytes 226, 128, 162) display in XEmacs? Is this font-dependent? 2) What -fu do I need to put into my startup files to get VM to display my messages inline, rather than attachments? Thanks again for any and all help/suggestions! - Charles _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta