Index: container/core/src/main/java/org/apache/james/core/InternetHeadersInputStream.java
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--- container/core/src/main/java/org/apache/james/core/InternetHeadersInputStream.java	(revision 1511654)
+++ container/core/src/main/java/org/apache/james/core/InternetHeadersInputStream.java	(working copy)
@@ -74,11 +74,11 @@
                 if (!headerLines.hasMoreElements()) {
                     line += LINE_SEPERATOR;
                 }
-                currLine = line.getBytes("US-ASCII");
+                currLine = line.getBytes("ISO-8859-1");
                 return true;
             } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
                 // should never happen
-                throw new IOException("US-ASCII encoding not supported by this platform ?!");
+                throw new IOException("ISO-8859-1 encoding not supported by this platform ?!");
             }
         } else {
             return false;