add gitignore
the old index has to be open in encoding mode too
Merge branch 'master' into debian
test for double encoding of index.db
output to perl scalars must be in octets, apparently; warn if the scalar is improperly encoded
fix output of handle email message so that it handles the new type of scalars and outputs proper utf8
Merge branch 'master' into debian
default charset to UTF-8 when it isn't defined
Merge branch 'master' into debian