p.s. I just ran mhn -edit on this message in MH 6.8.4 and it set the
character set to x-unknown. Does nmh allow you to set the default
character set so that if mhn detects 8 bit characters it can use,
for example, iso-8859-1?
When using mhn -build (now called mhbuild), here is how the character
set is determined for a text message, or for a text part of a multipart
message.
1) If character set is specified in a mhbuild directive, then use that.
#<text/plain; charset=iso-8859-5
2) Else if the text part is all 7bit, use charset="us-ascii".
3) Else if the text part has 8bit characters and the environment
variable MM_CHARSET is set, then use that as the character set.
4) Else use charset="x-unknown".
There is an explanation of this in the new mhbuild man page in
the beta version.
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Richard Coleman
coleman(_at_)math(_dot_)gatech(_dot_)edu