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>       A good alternative would be to encode each message as what 
>     the charset= header says (and add/fix such a header if there is none, or 
>     if the one that's there lies).
> 
> Paul, what do you think of this idea?

mbox format was chosen because it is standard, so whatever we
do, it is important that it works with other programs.
That probably means that the format should be "whatever was received".
I.e. the mail-reader should never encode anything (only the mail-sender
should do that).


	Stefan