Hi Andrei!

You wrote:

> > Hmm, there was an ancient version of MIME::Lite embedded in the
> > repositry.  I've updated it now, but I doubt it makes any difference...
> > 
> > I also tried with sid just now and it works perfectly here (both with
> > the old and new MIME::Lite).  
> 
> But why does the patch work (and what does encode() even do)?

I've no idea why the patch works;  it screws things up here, in
particular for languages that still use iso8859-1 (for example, french).
encode() encodes the perl string into a proper utf8 bytestring.  At
least, that's what it's suppoed to do...

Kind regards,
bas.

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