On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:40:53AM +0100, Johannes Zellner wrote:
> from time to time I get messages with
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
>
> which contain German Umlauts as something like `=E4'.
> Mutt displays them as `?'. -- Is it possible to make mutt
> displaying these messages correctly ?
Yes, ask the sender to use a propper email tool ;-)
Edit the charset in the header to iso-8859-1 and try again.
Mutt believes that the header info is correct.
>
> I've by default:
>
> set charset="iso-8859-1"
AFAIK this is for emails, you *send*
HTH
Frank