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> From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=)
> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 08:33:02 +0200
> 
> > It is impossible to display the message text without decoding it from
> > whatever coding system it is encoded in.
> 
> I think that's what Eli meant: an incoming message is already encoded
> in some way, and Eli suggested to just leave it like that and to
> decode on viewing.

Almost.  There are the cases where the existing charset= header lies.
A user can then do a "M-x rmail-redecode-body RET ENCODING RET", and
get the message decoded differently.  I think in these cases Emacs
should rewrite the charset= header according to the new encoding.