UTF-8, bad for discussions?

[Foster Schucker <Foster@...>]

This may be just my problem, but, there is a series of posts that start 
off in a code format that gets translated to hex characters.   When it 
shows up in the digest it's like one big block of text.   So I miss out 
on 1/3 of the posts and the nuances in them.   Is there a way to fix 
this?  A Lua script I can run on my mail to fix this?

Thanks!