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Andrew Torda <torda@zbh.uni-hamburg.de> writes:

> I sometimes have trouble (maybe always) reading mail from some
> Europeans with their representation of non-ascii characters.
> Typically, a word looks like
>    f=FCr
> whereas they intend it to look like 
>    fur
> with two dots (umlaut) over the "u".

RMAIL does not grok MIME, Gnus does grok MIME.  What are you using to
read mail?

(The above looks like the quoted-printable MIME encoding to pass 8bit
characters through 7bit pipes.)

kai
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