[mew-int 00655] iso-8859-1 problem

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

Hello, 

I heard several times that Mew does not handle iso-8859-1 in *unibyte*
environment. The unibyte environment means that you execute "emacs"
either
	with the "--unibyte" option
or
	the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable.

Today I investigated this problem very deeply.

In short, this problem occurs only if you are using semi-obsolete
configuration. That is,

	(standard-display-european 1)

Mew does not assume this configuration. Since this is semi-obsoleted,
please don't use this. Instead use

	(set-language-environment "Latin-1")
	(set-input-method "latin-1-prefix") ;; or "latin-1-postfix"

This is a right way to configure emacs and certainly solves the
problem.

Nonetheless I do recommend to execute emacs without unibyte
configuration. Mutibyte emacs never bite people living in the
ISO-8859-1 world. :-) Moreover, you can see my real name in the From:
field. ;-)

--Kazu