"iconv: illegal input sequence" in VM

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an tríú lá is fiche de mí Márta, scríobh Charles G Waldman: 

 > [...]
 > 
 >   So, I guess my questions are:
 > 
 >  1) Should the bullet char (composed of bytes 226, 128, 162) display
 > in XEmacs?  Is this font-dependent?

It should, absolutely, and will do, once VM is able to handle the encoding.

 >  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!

Here are the relevant lines from my .vm. The problem is, essentially, that
vm-mime-mule-charset-to-coding-alist needs a more useful initial value; this
hasn’t yet been fixed in trunk VM.

(pushnew '("windows-1252" windows-1252) vm-mime-mule-charset-to-coding-alist
	 :test 'equal)

(pushnew '("windows-1251" windows-1251) vm-mime-mule-charset-to-coding-alist
	 :test 'equal)
(pushnew '("windows-1250" windows-1250) vm-mime-mule-charset-to-coding-alist
	 :test 'equal)

(pushnew '("gb2312" cn-gb-2312) vm-mime-mule-charset-to-coding-alist
	 :test 'equal)
(pushnew '("utf-8" utf-8) vm-mime-mule-charset-to-coding-alist
	 :test 'equal)
(pushnew '("shift_jis" shift_jis) vm-mime-mule-charset-to-coding-alist
	 :test 'equal)
(pushnew '("shift-jis" shift_jis) vm-mime-mule-charset-to-coding-alist
	 :test 'equal)
(pushnew '("ascii" no-conversion) vm-mime-mule-charset-to-coding-alist
	 :test 'equal)
(pushnew '("iso8859-15" iso-8859-15) vm-mime-mule-charset-to-coding-alist
	 :test 'equal)
(pushnew '("cp1252" windows-1252) vm-mime-mule-charset-to-coding-alist
	 :test 'equal)

(unless (assoc "utf8" vm-mime-mule-charset-to-coding-alist)
  (nconc
   vm-mime-mule-charset-to-coding-alist
   ;; Needs to be at the end, otherwise we get the wrong MIME name when
   ;; sending.
   '(("utf8" utf-8))))


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