If you are using "emacs" with the "--unibyte" option or the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable, you should configure "emacs" correctly. Put the folloing into your ".emacs"
(set-language-environment "Latin-1") (set-input-method "latin-1-prefix") ;; or "latin-1-postfix"
If you use the following configuration, please remove it.
(standard-display-european 1)
This is a obsoleted way for ISO-8859-1 and Mew doesn't work with this.
BTW. You should think why you want to use emacs with the "unibyte" feature, instead of the "multibyte" feature. If you are not using special Elisp packages written for Emacs 19, there is no reason to stay with the "unibyte" world.
It's worth taking a time to jump into the multibyte world. Unset the EMACS_UNIBYTE environment variable and execute "emacs" without the "--unibyte" option. Of course, the following configuration is necessary.
(set-language-environment "Latin-1") (set-input-method "latin-1-prefix") ;; or "latin-1-postfix"
Now you can display Japanese, Korea, Chinese, as well as English/Latin-1.
Put the following in your ~/.mew.el.
(setq mew-pop-delete nil)
In default xv is executed for displaying images. If you want to use the display command in ImageMagick instead of xv, put the following in ~/.mew.el
(setq mew-prog-image/*-ext "display")