> my question is, sometimes I became a mail with a correct charset > displayed in (e.g.) mozilla thunderbird, but in mutt, there are other > strange characters in the subject, but ONLY there. Now, I think, the > header is coded as utf8, but mutt don't know about it. > google show that iconv is not a working solution. There are other > solutions with a perl-script, but, I'm too less familiar with it to > understand this. > > The characters are koir-8 coded, and thunderbird show this as popup on > any message.
note: if I save such a message in any folder and then open it with kate (from KDE), set there the charset to cyrillic>koi8-u , then the subject-characters are displayed correct. what would be the cleanest solution? The most mails are western europa. thanks.