LISTSERV will decode quoted-printable or base64 requests sent to the LISTSERV address (old versions may not do this). I don't see any reason why accented characters would be a problem. DBCS characters are another story and I would not recommend their use in passwords, because LISTSERV has no knowledge of DBCS outside of the web archive interface and a few other places, and will process them as a string of regular single-byte characters. Some of these single-byte characters may have special meaning (I don't know for sure but I wouldn't be surprised if a SPACE were possible) and you may not get the desired results. Eric