Hello Ben Parker, hello list owners, > >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?= Yes. > Obviously this creates a parsing problem, as well as the fact that not all mail > programs can display this correctly. If every member of the list used a MIME compatible mail program there would be no problem (I think), but unfortunately the widespread MS Outlook Express and Netscape Messenger are not compatible (IIRC). The fact that non-MIME-compatible mail programs can´t display MIME encoded characters correctly is just a problem of the single user. But by answering he then creates a "new" subject like =Re: ?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:_German_umlauts_(=E4,_=F6,_=FC)_in_subject?= > >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. As LISTSERV is already able to reduce a "Re: [Listname] Re: ..." to "[Listname] Re: ..." and is able to add the name of the mailing list in each subject I hoped there is some possibility to exchange other characters. No chance yet? Schöne Grüße Erwin Weiblen