Digest doesn't display unicode properly?

[Theodore H. Smith]

I see a lot of garbage characters in the unicode digest.

The same emails, however, display fine when emailed to me directly, 
(although I can't understand them sometimes ;o) but someone who speaks 
the correct language would).

Is this a problem with my mailer, or the unicode digest program? I 
suppose the unicode digest should be responsible, for converting the 
emails, into UTF8 before merging. Even if the original seperate emails 
were in UTF16, or ISO-whatever, or Shift JIS, etc etc.

I'm using Mail, for OSX 10.2.8, by the way.