On 02/20/2004 08:22:13 AM, "Thater, William" wrote: > OK i'm using outlook 2000 SR-1 and have just set my encoding to US-ASCII. > let's see if the unprintable characters show up. this is plain text. if > not maybe we have a basis for the solution? Bill, your text is fine, no annoying unprintables! 48617665206120676F6F64207765656B656E6421A (Have a good weekend, in hex) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------