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.