I'm a real newbie and would appreciate any help. I'm trying to modify a script that parses the HTML tags from a page and emails selected content using sendmail.

My problem is that the content is Spanish and the special characters (ñ, etc.) are not coming through in the email, MS Entourage at least, but are showing up as ~ or / or ^. I'm trying to substitute the characters for the HTML encodings and have the ISO set to 8859-1, but I must be doing something wrong. Any ideas?

The code setting up the email looks like: 
open(MAIL,"|$G{MailProgram}");
print MAIL "To: $In{toemail}\n";
print MAIL "From: \"$In{name}\" \<$In{fromemail}\>\n";
print MAIL "X-IP_Address: $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}\n";
print MAIL "MIME-version: 1.0\n";
print MAIL "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Articulo\n\n";
print MAIL "$In{message}\n\n";
print MAIL "$In{name} le manda este articulo\n\n";
$printline = 0;
for(@L)
{
    if($_ =~ /BEGIN mailer/) { $printline = 1; next; }
    next unless $printline;
    if($_ =~ /END mailer/) { $printline = 0; next; }

    $_ =~ s/<.*?>//g;
    $_ =~ s/&amp;amp;ntilde;/ñ/g;

...and so on with the other characters...

    print MAIL $_;
}
close MAIL;

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