In case anyone else has this problem, I fixed it by changing the
character encoding on the offending messages from Unicode to Western
European, although I had to make this change every time I view the
message.

On Sat, 2003-07-05 at 12:36, Ted Anderson wrote:
> The other day I received 2 emails in Spanish. One was in HTML and the
> characters looked normal: compañeros, prometí, etc. The other was in
> plain text and instead of special characters there was nothing: xito,
> confirmacin, etc. In fact, when I view email source on the HTML message,
> the words appear like compaeros and promet. I can forward these to my
> wife's M$ box and they both look fine in Outlook.
> 
> At first I thought my GNOME plain text font (Monospace) might not be
> able to display accented chars, but here I am in Monospace (íáñ) and it
> seems to be working. Is there some other way I can see these messages
> correctly?
> 
> Ted
> 
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