Something very interesting came through from Alain LaBonté... A message that claims to be Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" but contains some bizarre control characters in two lines: > As an example, in the MS-Windows 1252 code page, the French œ, Œ and the > Finnish š, Š are already coded in what is known as the C1 space in ISO/IEC In case that appears to be rendered "properly" for you, here's what I see, ASCIIfied: > As an example, in the MS-Windows 1252 code page, the French ~^\, ~^L and the > Finnish ~^Z, ~^J are already coded in what is known as the C1 space in ISO/IEC I would merely like to point out that the REAL content type of the message is not ISO 8859-1, which contains no graphic characters in the "C1" range. Rick