@section Rmail and Coding Systems
@cindex decoding mail messages (Rmail)
- Rmail automatically decodes messages which contain non-@sc{ascii}
+ Rmail automatically decodes messages which contain non-ASCII
characters, just as Emacs does with files you visit and with subprocess
output. Rmail uses the standard @samp{charset=@var{charset}} header in
the message, if any, to determine how the message was encoded by the
sender. It maps @var{charset} into the corresponding Emacs coding
system (@pxref{Coding Systems}), and uses that coding system to decode
-message text. If the message header doesn't have the charset
-specification, or if the @var{charset} it specifies is not recognized,
+message text. If the message header doesn't have the @samp{charset}
+specification, or if @var{charset} is not recognized,
Rmail chooses the coding system with the usual Emacs heuristics and
defaults (@pxref{Recognize Coding}).