When sending a message with an accented character in it, mutt (on my OpenBSD system) sets the content-type as:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit I tried setting LC_ALL="en_US" and LC_ALL=iso8859-1 in my environment Am I doing something wrong, or is there something I can do to fix this? $send_charset is the default - "us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf-8" Also, when searching for a string, on a linux machine, the regex library or something is smart enough to have "e" match an accented e as well as a literal e (i.e., a search for "~s stephane" brings up subjects with "st?phane" as well). w