On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 23:40:14 +0200, Erwin Weiblen <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>is there anybody who has to deal with German umlauts (ä, ö, ü) or
>other non-ASCII characters in the subject of mails?

Had you included these characters in the Subject: Line it would look like this
in 'raw' (MIME encoded) form:

Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:_German_umlauts_(=E4,_=F6,_=FC)_in_subject?=

Obviously this creates a parsing problem, as well as the fact that not all mail
programs can display this correctly.

>The same problem is caused by MS Outlook, which in the german version
>writes "AW:" instead of "Re:".

Swedish, Spanish, and French (to name a few languages) present still other
variations on this.

>Is LISTSERV able to exchange uncorrect characters in the subject by
>other characters, e.g. "ae" instead of "ä" or "Re:" instead of "AW:"?

No.  Such language transformations and character 'cleanup' are not currently
possible in LISTSERV.  This may become possible in a future version.