The characters above 127 got changed on the way to me. TX -> RX 128 -> 199 145 -> 230 146 -> 198 168 -> 191 >supposed to be. Unicode works ok. But, I assume that not all e-mail >viewers support Unicode... I think if you choose Unicode the message will be B64 encoded to allow the non-ASCII characters. As I understand it, the e-mail clients aren't the main problem. The main problem is that internet mail servers only work with 7-bit ASCII. To transport anything else it has to be encoded to 7-bit. This is why when you e-mail a file it's transmission speed is much slower than you'd expect given the line speed. A 100K binary often ends up being sent as a 130K+ B64 file, of course you don't usually see this, as most mail clients automatically encode/decode it without asking. Paul -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics