Hal, Thank you for your helpful and useful unraveling of the mysteries of UTF-8, mime and unwanted control characters! Your link to the results of the search on "Translate=" recommends the potential practical resolution to the problem (as is observable on this very LSTOWN list): Version 1.8d was not very MIME-aware so a number of errors like this are possible. This is corrected by upgrading the site to Version 1.8e (14.0) and/or later releases. <http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0505&L=LSTOWN- L&P=R2054> Kathy