I have the same/similar problem: Debian 3.1/mutt 1.5.9i LANG=en_US Both the following suggestion do not work in my case. set charset="us-ascii//TRANSLIT" charset-hook '^iso-8859-1$' cp1252 An example of mis-displayed line by mutt From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andy G=F6tze?= <goetze@xxxxxxxxxxxx> I am logged on a pc via ssh and am using bash shell. Any idea how to fix that in my case? -- Realos