lib/PublicInbox/View.pm | 8 +++++++-

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
index 3f0e1226118702f3c62b94fbe06dd04b809dcfdd..6997c1c595c270e0e14c21ccfb29cfdd969c18f2 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/View.pm
@@ -457,8 +457,14 @@ 	# badly-encoded message? tell the world about it!
 	my $err = $@;
 	if ($err) {
 		if ($ct =~ m!\btext/plain\b!i) {
+			# Try to assume UTF-8 because Alpine seems to
+			# do wacky things and set charset=X-UNKNOWN
+			$part->charset_set('UTF-8');
+			$s = eval { $part->body_str };
+
+			# If forcing charset=UTF-8 failed,
 			# attach_link will warn further down...
-			$s = $part->body;
+			$s = $part->body if $@;
 		} else {
 			return attach_link($upfx, $ct, $p, $fn);
 		}