Mutt/locale question: charset=unknown-8bit causing problems for some MUAs?

["Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>]

I've got a correspondent who's reporting problems reading mail I'm
sending, because, he claims, of mutt's Content-Type encoding:

> 
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit
> 
> Could you possibly specify a correct character set on your emails;
> Outlook/Exchange, for once, does something reasonable with unknown
> ones, see below.
> 
> > Content-Disposition: inline
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> unknown-8bit is the likely result of sending 8 bit text without
> specifying a character set (as us-ascii, the default, is 7 bit);
> you may be just be sending content-transfer-encoding: 8 bit, or you
> may be sending actual 8 bit characters.  (It could be that the
> list server requires a character set for MIME, or assumes that 
> quoted-printable implies non-ASCII.)  The fault, for once, is not
> with Outlook or Exchange.


I suspect a locale issue, unless, of course, the fault really *is* with
Outlook/Exchage.  Current results for 'locale':

    $ locale
    LANG=POSIX
    LC_CTYPE="POSIX"
    LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
    LC_TIME="POSIX"
    LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
    LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
    LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
    LC_PAPER="POSIX"
    LC_NAME="POSIX"
    LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
    LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
    LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
    LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
    LC_ALL=

Any mail / content-type gurus out there know what's going on, whose
mailer's puking on this, and/or what's wrong with my locale &/or mutt
settings?

Thanks.

Peace.

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