On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:15:50 +0200, Axel Rutz wrote:

hi all,

i use the externaleditor product and its win client. when i try and externaledit a file, in most cases the client sais: fatal error: unknown encoding: mbcs (some files generate this error, others dont...even with the same content type...)

which subsystem generates this encoding? (not me ;-) which subsystem complains? how to get rid of this?

any ideas?

Well, it's not a complete answer, but it does seem that this error only occurs in cases where the externaleditor.ini file doesn't explicitly define an editor for a particular filetype. For example, I was getting the same error for Word documents until I realized that I had reinstalled the EE product and forgotten to copy back my .ini file. Once I set the default editor for type application/msword to be "winword", all was well. Hopefully that gives you a clue as to where the problem lies...