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Subject: Re: Can't input "some greek character" in the current unibyte
	buffer -- so what do I do to change that?
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> From: Mirko <mvukovic@nycap.rr.com>
> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:24:40 -0000
> 
> I am using emacs 22.1 on windows XP.  Every once in a while when I set
> the encoding system to greek, I get an error message when I try to
> input greek characters. For example
> 
> Can't input α in the current unibyte buffer

You need to find out why do you have unibyte buffers.  What kinds of
buffers (meaning their names and purposes) trigger these messages?