In a message dated 5/18/2006 3:35:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, Kevincamp@aol.com writes: I think that this us unacceptable. This is a big problem. However, I've noticed that people who have their CHAR SET=US-ASCII seem to be coming though OK while people with CHAR SET=ISO-8559-1 seem to have the extra characters added. How can I get AOL to use the correct character set? AOL isn't using any particular charset for mail you receive--it is determined by the person sending the email to you. AOL's email program is not Internet standard and therein lies the problem of how you are seeing codes in some messages you receive. Joan