Oh, I'm sorry. In my last posting there was an iso-8859-15 encoded ö
in the cited output of C-u C-x =, that of course produced the problem
we are talking about. Now you can see what happens. Here
is the "cleaned" text:

Sven Bretfeld writes:
 > This ist what Emacs tells me when I hit C-u C-x = with the point above
 > an ö encoded with iso-8859-15:
 > 
 >   character: ö (07566, 3958, 0xf76)
 >     charset: latin-iso8859-15
 > 	     (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 9 (ISO/IEC 8859-15): ISO-IR-203)
 >  code point: 118
 >      syntax: word
 >    category: l:Latin  
 > buffer code: 0x8E 0xF6
 >   file code: not encodable by coding system no-conversion
 >        font: -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO8859-15
 > 
 > Here is the same for an ö encoded with iso-8859-1:
 > 
 >   character: ö (04366, 2294, 0x8f6)
 >     charset: latin-iso8859-1
 > 	     (Right-Hand Part of Latin Alphabet 1 (ISO/IEC 8859-1): ISO-IR-100)
 >  code point: 118
 >      syntax: word
 >    category: l:Latin  
 > buffer code: 0x81 0xF6
 >   file code: 0x81 0xF6 (encoded by coding system raw-text)
 >        font: -Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--24-240-75-75-M-150-ISO8859-1
 > 
 > I cannot make much of it. But it doesn't look the same to me. Maybe
 > somebody can see any hint to the problem here.
 > 
 > I have inserted 
 > 
 >  (require 'ucs-tables) 
 >  (unify-8859-on-encoding-mode 1)
 > 
 > in my .emacs file. But it didn't solve the problem. Maybe there is a
 > mistake or a shortcoming in the vm-pakage. What I found is a piece of
 > code in the file /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/vm/vm-vars.el that looks
 > relevant to me, since it seems not to include a translation rule for
 > iso-8859-15 at all:
 > 
 > (defvar vm-mime-mule-charset-to-charset-alist
 >   '(
 >     (latin-iso8859-1    "iso-8859-1")
 >     (latin-iso8859-2    "iso-8859-2")
 >     (latin-iso8859-3    "iso-8859-3")
 >     (latin-iso8859-4    "iso-8859-4")
 >     (cyrillic-iso8859-5 "iso-8859-5")
 >     (arabic-iso8859-6   "iso-8859-6")
 >     (greek-iso8859-7    "iso-8859-7")
 >     (hebrew-iso8859-8   "iso-8859-8")
 >     (latin-iso8859-9    "iso-8859-9")
 >     (japanese-jisx0208  "iso-2022-jp")
 >     (korean-ksc5601     "iso-2022-kr")
 >     (chinese-gb2312     "iso-2022-jp")
 >     (sisheng            "iso-2022-jp")
 >     (thai-tis620        "iso-2022-jp")
 >    )
 >   "Alist that maps MULE character sets to matching MIME character sets.")
 > 
 > I've tried adding (latin-iso8859-15 "iso-8859-15") to the list, but
 > that didn't help.
 > 
 > Thanks again
 > 
 > Sven
 > 
 > 
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