Michael Noisternig <michael.noisternig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: I would like to repeat: >>The mail was properly typed as >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" >>thus allowing for 8bit characters, like 0x1A. >>If you mail client fails on them, it's not my fault. >But the first 128 ASCII characters are standardized, and 0x1A is no ^c but a >control character as all chars >below 0x20. Right. But I think it is allowed, since it is in ISO-8859-1. Probably it was some character else before my mailreader mangled it, but your mailreader shouldn't have this problems anyway, Regards Marcus PS: this is the real character: ç