Erkki I. Kolehmainen; > The use of local character sets (encoding) is doomed for particularly ww > information interchange. Interestingly enough, ww information interchange is working very well with local character sets. The reason is because only people sharing a language, a scripting system and a character encoding system join each exchange, regardless of whether it is ww or intranational. For example, ww IETF communication is with English, Latin script and ASCII. Introduction of ISO-8859-1 or Unicode does not make IETF use Finnish. Your attempt to put ISO-8859-1 characters is not acceptable for me and your mail is filtered to be pure ASCII by my mailer, which is fair because many of us have no way to input non-ASCII ISO-8859-1 characters. Masataka Oha