[PLUG] Display of "Windows" characters in Mutt

["eric@lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

I receive emails that are written on various systems and I notice that a
number of "special" characters that don't display well in mutt.  In
particular, for some emails... 

 I see:     don?t       instead of:  don't
 I see:     word?word   instead of:  word - word
 I see:     ?word?      instead of:   "word"

Some of these are, I believe, "smart quotes" in Windows applications.
Others are replaced dashes between words or elipsis.  When I edit the
email in VIM I see either the correct character or a code that
represents the character:   don<92>t 

In a recent email I noticed the character set was specified as iso-8859-15
so I put these lines in my .muttrc:
   
set charset="iso-8859-1:iso-8859-15"
# used to be:
#   set charset="ascii"
set send_charset="us-ascii"

but now don?t becomes: don\264t

How do other mutt users deal with this - besides not accepting email from
Windows users :-)  Is this setting actually "outside" of Mutt?

Eric

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