This has already been done in 1.7b. ALL characters are considered 'SPECIALS', except those that obviously aren't (like A-Z 0-9). Technically, there is no question: X'6A' is neither one of the listed special characters nor an EBCDIC control character, and thus should be accepted. Unfortunately the mailer thinks otherwise, so it's safer to quote everything and tell users that the reason their name must be quoted is that it contains non-US characters - they should be happy it works at all, after all. Eric