Hi all, We've just started a list on Japanese History which wants to be bilingual. Not just bilingual, but they want some messages to come through listserv in Japanese characters and some in ASCII characters so that everyone can receive either type with no problem. They say they can get this effect on their regular email. We have a new, UNIX 8 bit listserv, which should handle MIME encoding just fine, but it appears to be encoding the Japanese script in a way that doesn't decode, in other words turning it to junk. The new list owners are VERY unhappy with us. I don't know where to begin to fix it, though I've been sending long messages for help to Eric. I thought one of you might have already solved this problem. My own Pine email says: [The following text is in the "ISO-2022-JP" character set] [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set] [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly] when I try to look at their direct mail. When their mail goes through Listserv, it looks like encoded ASCII and doesn't seem to offer to translate. Does anyone know what IS-2022-JP is and how you install it? Do you know if it has to be installed on the machine somehow for Listserv to handle Japanese? Is anyone else working with a list that has content in both a non-ASCII character set and in ASCII? If so, is that working for everyone? Do you or the subscribers have to make any sort of special accomodations--for example only read offline or use some special method of encoding? If someone could tell me how this works or offer some insights, I'd much appreciate it. Vickie Banks H-NET Technical Assistance [log in to unmask]