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era@iki.fi writes:

> I have Gnus 5.8.8 so forgive me if this is improved in newer
> versions.

I can't reproduce it with the current version, so I guess it has been
fixed.

> I get an MMF spec which looks like this ("disarmed").
>
>   [#part charset="utf-8" type="text/plain" filename="/tmp/8bit.txt"
>          disposition=attachment
>          description="Test file for unknown character set"]
>   [#/part]

As a work-around it'll probably work to specify the encoding in the
MML tag, e.g. "encoding=base64", or to specify the MIME type as
application/octet-stream.