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sigh!

now that i look more carefully it seems the outgoing mails
with headers indicating charset=utf-8 are indeed correctly
utf-8 encoded and not just bytes copies from the incoming
latin-1 mail.

so now the issue becomes what to do about environments that
can't
handle utf-8 -- i guess there should be a configuration
option saying
which character set to use. if it's not possible to
represent the data
in that character set, then it would be acceptable to fall
back to utf-8. how does that sound?

  -- erno