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I have installed Gnus and GNU Emacs 20.2 for reading and posting
Japanese email and news.  Emacs was compiled without X11 support,
and is feeding its display in euc-japan coding to a Japanese
character terminal ("kon" running on a VGA display).

Everything works amazingly well so far except for Japanese in
headers.  Any subject line that begins with kanji characters
looks more or less like this:

  =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOkcyTCRGJE5FZxsoQg==?=

This looks like it could be a JIS-encoded Japanese character
sequence that has lost its prefix and suffix, and has been
labelled by Emacs as an ISO-2022-encoded string for safekeeping.

This behavior is a particular irritation with BBDB; the ISO
prefix is interpreted as a name, and BBDB attempts to stick the
email address of every Japanese correspondent into the same
database entry.

Is this a bug, a product of server mangling, or is there
something I can tweak to get non-ASCII headers to display
properly?

Cheers,
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