[mew-int 00455] Charset problems

[Simon Vostry]

Hello everybody,

I'm relatively new to mew. Not so long time ago I completely switched
from Windows to Linux. Actually, I switched already an year ago, but
the mail client was the last thing I was still staying with
Windows. If anybody of you knows The Bat you know what I'm talking
about. I enjoy mew a lot -- instead if clicking I'm really working now
:-)

I got a major problem with with charset encoding. I'm using emacs 20.7
on RedHat 7.1.

I run my emacs by 'emacs -unibyte -fn "-long-name-here-iso8859-2"'.
Like that I can see the Czech characters (I'm from the Czech Republic,
Europe). I'm using a small lisp program that allows me to write Czech
diacritics (Czech keyboard emulator).

My problem is when I send some mail with Czech diacritics the
recipient always gets it incorrect.

I followed the manual:
'On Internationalized Emacs, Mew reads a file according to the local
convention (i.e. auto conversion). The command to set a local
convention is `C-x RET l'.'

I did it. If I push <tab> afterwords, I have the 'Czech' selecting in
the list -- so that works fine.

If I run the 'describe-language-environment' and choose Czech, I got
the following screen:Czech language environment

Sample text:
  Pøejeme vám hezký den!

Input methods (default, czech):

Character sets:
  ascii: ASCII (ISO646 IRV)
  latin-iso8859-2: ISO8859-2 (Latin-2)

Coding systems:
  iso-8859-2 (`2' in mode line):
	ISO 2022 based 8-bit encoding (MIME:ISO-8859-2)
	(alias: iso-8859-2 latin-2)

The sentence after 'sample text' is in Czech. It shows diacritics on
my screen but when I send it, the recipients has strange characters on
his/her screen :-(

But when someone sends me an e-mail in ISO-8859-2 encoding, I can read
it without any problems! I just get the following line in the message
header.

X-Mew: Charset (ISO-8859-2) for body is not supported.

But characters display fine...

When I attach a file by 'c-cc-a' the 'c' for copy and afterward 'I' to
set the encoding I got only 'guess' 'us-ascii' and 'iso-8859-1' in my
choses.

I believe, that all these issues are because of 1 incorrect setting,
but I tried everything I was aware of. It doesn't have to have
anything to do with mew (maybe emacs).

I'm sure mew is used by many users who are using different charsets
than iso-8859-1. I would be extremely glad if anybody can help!

Thanx a lot!
Simon Vostry

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