National characters and Hotmail

[Kent Asplund <hoglet solit se>]

I do not know if this is a bug, missing feature or missing  
documentation.

Problem:
When somebody sends me a mail using his Hotmail-account it shows up in  
balsa with all national characters replaced with '?'.

I have changed the setting "National (8-bit) characters in broken  
messages without codeset header" to use "west european"

Header:
X-Sender: XXXXXX hotmail com
From: "XXXXXX" <XXXXX hotmail com>
To: miniracing solit se
Bcc:
Subject: [miniracing] Hoppas =?ISO-8859-1?Q? 
p=E5=20uppeh=E5llsv=E4der...?=
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 11:09:28 +0200
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
Message-ID: <BAY8-F1253HVWqEdolQ000a1a3b hotmail com>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Jun 2004 09:09:28.0420 (UTC) FILETIME= 
[1E5BAA40:01C45A94]
X-MailScanner: Found to be clean, Found to be clean
X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0
Sender: miniracing-bounce solit se
Errors-to: miniracing-bounce solit se
X-original-sender: arvidrc hotmail com
Precedence: bulk
Reply-to: miniracing solit se
X-list: miniracing solit se

My comment:
I notice that "Content-Type" is missing a "charset" description. Should  
not Balsa then use default charset or is this implying us-ascii?
I had the same problem in Mutt and added:
"charset-hook ascii iso-8859-1" in my .muttrc to solve it.

Question:
Am I sending to the right forum?
Is this also where I suggest improvements?

Regards.
/Kent

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