[mew-int 01665] Re: encoding problem

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

From: Eduard Werner <edi.werner at example.com>
Subject: [mew-int 01663] encoding problem

> I have set up mew at work and encounter the following problem:
> 
> Whenever I use other characters than latin-1 (that is unicode Sorbian or 
> Russian), mew encodes the mail not with utf-8 which is the default, but with 
> iso-2022-jp-2 and the mail gets scrambled on the other side. 
> I've checked the value of mew-charset-m17n and it is set to "utf-8". Why does 
> mew use "iso-2022-jp-2" instead?

I guess that you are using Emacs 21.3 or earlier. If so, you need to
install Mule-UCS-0.84.

But I recommend you to switch to Emacs current (without Mule-UCS),
which is available the savanna machine of www.gnu.org.

--Kazu