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Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@fuckmicrosoft.com> writes:

>> Marcus Frings <protagonist@gmx.net> writes:
>>> I upgrade Oort via CVS daily. Since 2002-11-01 I'm having problems with
>>> writing texts in iso-8859-1. If I downgrade to an Oort version from
>>> 2002-10-31 everything works fine again. When I want to write a posting
>>> with German umlauts and send it I receive following messages:
>>> XEmacs 21.4.10 (Win32): "Malformed list: 8bit"
>>> Emacs 21.2.1 (Debian): "Wrong type argument: listp, 8bit"
>
> Here is the output:
>
> Signaling: (malformed-list 8bit)
>   assq(iso-8859-1 8bit)
>   (cdr (assq charset mm-body-charset-encoding-alist))

What do get when you do `C-h v mm-body-charset-encoding-alist'?  

It should be an association list, which it doesn't appear to be for you.
Did you customize the option?