8 bit chars on openbsd

[William Yardley <mutt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

When sending a message with an accented character in it, mutt (on my
OpenBSD system) sets the content-type as:

 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit

I tried setting
LC_ALL="en_US"
and
LC_ALL=iso8859-1

in my environment

Am I doing something wrong, or is there something I can do to fix this?

$send_charset is the default - "us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf-8"

Also, when searching for a string, on a linux machine, the regex library
or something is smart enough to have "e" match an accented e as well as
a literal e (i.e., a search for "~s stephane" brings up subjects with
"stéphane" as well).

w