Herr Seitz, Danke. Herr Lenkner t 11:19 PM 2/8/2007, you wrote: > I suspect the difference between the message that gave you >trouble and previous ones from Helen is the troublesome one involved >a cut-and-paste from her word processing program. The others were >probably typed directly into her e-mail program -- or perhaps didn't >involve the tabulation spaces she appears to have used this time. > A little over a year ago, I had the reverse of your problem. The >e-mail program I was using then couldn't properly handle German >characters produced by a Windows e-mail program. To handle >translations a cousin was doing for me, we resorted to >cutting-and-pasting from a Word document he sent as an attachment. It >got the proper characters into my e-mail going to Germany. My current >version of the e-mail program doesn't need that work around. >-- >Karl Seitz