"Dr. Joe Q." <[email protected]> asked Re: Irish railway history: >What character set did you use for your message? >Dennis Ahern wrote: >>??lm?e??+jv???&j?^^ ???*'z???g?n???^W???-???????r+zV?t????^???zf???.? >>?????^W???d?x^Zn?????y???????Z?^W?j'b??&z?k??!????)?j?h?+!?g???jYrj >>????z???(^j[(???????^X??????? As my email is in a unix shell account, all email is in a simple ascii text format. I do not use any special character set, nor did my message come out this way to the digest version of the list. There must be something peculiar about the settings on the device with which you read this. Of course, if that is the case, you probably can't read this either. -dja