#3830 Newsletter: charset in MIME header incompatible with content

[hadaso]

In the daily Slashdot newletter I receive I see

Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit
Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

And then in the newsletter itself I see things like:

... to my question ג€” ...

This is the result of the newsletter containing codes outside the us-ascii range (us-ascii is a 7-bit encoding).
These codes are probably meant to designate charaters in the iso-8859-1 charset so the solution might be to change the charset parameter in the MIME header from us-ascii to iso-8859-1. (A better solution in the long run is to switch to Unicode).

[hadaso]

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It seems to me now that the content of newletters is encoded in utf-8
the MIME header still declares charset="us-ascii" instead of charset="utf-8"

There's also another bug report about the MIME-version header missing
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1118988&group_id=4421&atid=104421