Hi Jérôme: >It looks like the problem is on the sender part; if the message does not >contain chinese, he should not use a chinese charset to send it...
Er thanks, but it was me that sent it...... The recipient found that it was mangled. On my machine the encoding is set to Language US/Western Europe; charset=US-ASCII (ISO-8859-1) What seems to have happened is that a rogue character in the msg body - I had copied a Perl script which somehow acquired the character - caused PM to switch to Big5 (traditional chinese). This is surprising behaviour, since I thought it would have ignored the character, left a blank or done a substitution. If you wish I can send you the full msg. regards, Chris
