On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 13:40:08 CDT, "Good, Donald" <[log in to unmask]>  said:

>   Any non-ASCII language or character set specification are automatically
> encoded, even if indicated as "plain text"

Almost certainly this was the case, as I think the original was flagged as
a charset of UTF-8.

Note that many MUA's manage to get this worng - the RFC suggests that
a pass be made through the data and the charset promoted from ascii to
an ISO-whatever or utf or anything else only if glyphs not representable
in ascii are found....