> Heh.  In my summary buffer (as well as the Subject line in the article
> buffer), I got three glorious Japanese glyphs, while the last line
> quoted has a jumble of weird characters.  (16 of them.)

Hmm.  The three Japanese glyphs spell `nihongo', Japanese for `Japanese'.
The garbled one is the same, bracketed by square brackets.  Cutting
and pasting the text into Emacs 20.3 works.

Off to try 0.6 ...