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....