[VM] SOLVED: Re: Using VM for 19 years, still can't solve "iconv: (stdin):21:31: cannot convert"

[edburns]

EB> Somewhere along the line I picked up this:

EB> ;Message-ID: address@hidden

EB> (setq vm-mime-charset-converter-alist
EB>       '(
EB>     ("utf-8" "iso-8859-1" "iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1")
EB>     ("windows-1252" "iso-8859-1" "iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1")
EB>     )
EB>  )

EB> in a previous attempt to fix this difficult problem.

The above tip, plus the iconv manpage fixed the problem.  I added the -c
option to the iconv invocation:

     Options controlling conversion problems:

     -c   When this option is given, characters  that  cannot  be
          converted are silently discarded, instead of leading to
          a conversion error.

and this allowed the problem emails to render correctly.

Ed