On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:57:19PM +0000, Chris G wrote: > If you look in the header of this message I *fear* you will see that > the charset is set to iso-8859-1. It's not my muttrc that's doing > that, so what is setting it to that, incorrectly! I suspect that it's > probably this that is the fundamental problem (apart from getting my > editor to enter the correct utf-8 encoding). > Not even that, something has set the charset to us-ascii.
Does something, somewhere *guess* the character set from the stream of characters it sees? I'll send a couple more messages to the list, one with some iso8859-1 pound signs in it and one with some utf-8 pound signs and see what happens. -- Chris Green