[mew-int 2610] Re: char coding problems in mew

[Kazu Yamamoto ( 山本和彦 )]

Hello,

> Sorry to disturb you.
> I'm in trouble of char-coding.
> 
> When I compose a mail, the body of it is encode to Janpenses by default.
> I searched the docs for it, and the only solution is to use MIME,
> and set the Cover.txt to my language. 
> Ok, it takes some time, but it works.
> But the mail Subject is alwayse guessed by mew.
> What I want to do is assign the coding-system by myself.

Did you set your language environment?

In your .emacs, the following code is necessary.

(set-language-environment "Chinese-XXX")

"Chinese-XXX" should be replaced with 
Chinese-BIG5 or Chinese-CNS or Chinese-EUC-TW or Chinese-GB

--Kazu