Unknown encoding in headers

[Mişu Moldovan <dumol gnome ro>]

Hi all,

I've recently received a couple of messages with unknown encoding in  
headers that look like this:

To: "Mi\272u Moldovan" <dumol gnome ro>\r
Subject: Re: standardul de tastatur\343 \356n WinVista\r

While other mail clients that I've tried (Mozilla Mail 1.7.12, Sylpheed  
2.2.0beta4, Sylpheed Claws 2.0.0rc3) decode using either ISO-8859-1 or  
UTF-8, Balsa just displays the following:

Destinatar:	"=?x-unknown?B?TWm6dQ==?= Moldovan" <dumol gnome ro>
Subiect:	Re: standardul de =?x-unknown?B?dGFzdGF0dXLjIO5u?=
WinVista

Granted, the sender used a broken MUA (PMMail 2000 Professional  
2.20.2717), but Balsa should have tried it's best to decode the above  
gibberish, it even has a special setting instructing it to use a  
user-defined encoding when none is specified. For now, this is used  
when encountering 8-bit characters in body and there is no encoding  
specified in the headers. Shouldn't this be extended to non-ASCII  
characters in headers without a specified encoding, like the above  
example?

On related notes I've recently tried the latest Sylpheed and Sylpheed  
Claws mail clients and I have some ideas that apply to Balsa also. Are  
you interested in hearing them?

Thanks,

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