Dan Wheeler <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Vicki received two suggestions: 1) change the header option, and 2) change >to Translate= No so control codes are not deleted. It is an empirical >question whether either of these will help in Vicki's situation. Many heartfelt thanks to Eric, Dan and Norm Aleks. Our lists are now sending Japanese characters properly. We did substantial testing today with people all over the world and found that in order for Japanese characters to go though the UNIX listserv here without being corrupted one must do BOTH of the suggestions above. FULL or IETF headers allowed it to "know" that the character set was Japanese, and appeared to send European special characters through. So it was necessary to set the default to one of these and to change all the subscribers. But that alone didn't work for any of our Japanese subscribers. When we combined the header change with the Translate= No keyword, it all started working for them though. So I conclude that one must make both changes to send Japanese script. I appreciate the help so much, as these folk were getting very upset that their messages were all corrupted and unreadable. A couple of additional questions. What's the difference between FULL and IETF headers? Both seemed to work, but I'm wondering if there is an advantage to one over the other. My Pine is still complaining that I don't have the ISO-2022-JP Character Set, so it can't actually display the Japanese. I get a similar complaint when the owners of our European lists write, though different character sets. I'd like to be able to display these on UNIX Pine or on something, so that I could do my own testing, and not have to ask the subscribers to help so often. Can't seem to find any directions on where to find them or how to install them though. Does anyone know? And lastly am I likely to have a problem with the file server? I don't think the list keyword will affect the file server, and I'm afraid the Japanese will be corrupted again. In addition, I think they want to do part of the Welcome Letter, Surveys, etc., in Japanese, and I'm wondering how to make that work. Thanks again for all the help. Vickie Banks H-NET Technical Assistance [log in to unmask] P.S. Dan Lunde's WWW site is excellent for finding materials on Japanese use of the Internet. http://jasper.ora.com/lunde/ Not much on the listserv interface yet though. Maybe I'll send him a summary of what we find out.