>It baffles me. The apostrophe (') is a perfectly normal character >and as such should never be an object of any translations, "quoting" >or whatever... it should simply pass through just like a dot (.), >a dash (-) or an apersand (&). I wonder... I've sometimes received email (which I believe to have been prepared with a word processor rather than a text editor) where some 8-bit character appears where an apostrophe would have been expected. My guess is that in this case an 8-bit character was used in the "French" message text. I couldn't locate one right now, so I'm not sure what the 8-bit value used was. Cheers, Stan