"Pay no attention to that little man behind the curtain" - Wizard of Oz That's just Eric complaining that he did a "SET LANGUAGE UCENG" and it failed. He then does a "SET LANGUAGE AMENG". If that fails, LISTSERV refuses to run - Eric isn't going to try to parse Kanji messages. The reason for the warning is that IBM has stated that AMENG is not guaranteed to be a mixed-case version of UCENG. While the meaning of the message won't change, it is possible that the exact wording may vary between the two. Eric has set UCENG as the LISTSERV basic requirement. Since it appears that AMENG is currently just a mixed-case copy of UCENG, he accepts it anyway. But all bets are off if IBM changes the wording of a message that LISTSERV depends on. Ross Patterson Rutgers University