Subj : appearances are decieving To : Richard Menedetter From : Maurice Kinal Date : Sun Jun 10 2018 19:20:41 Hallo Richard! RM> So could you please translate line 2 above for me. I have done this multiple times now but since you asked nicely here we go again; Things are bad everywhere, said the man who heard wailing in hell. Anyhow I see the your quote of line 2 which I converted to latin1 before packing confirms the your editor's LATIN-1 kludge is more than likely ISO-8859-1 although it still might be CP1252 which often it is. The hexdump was a nice touch although not really needed. Of note is the 0xfe character which got buggered up on a test of a so-called LATIN-1 editor I did not too long ago with the exact same line. Obviously a buggy version of so-clled LATIN-1. No? Het leven is goed, Maurice .... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi. --- GNU bash, version 4.4.23(1)-release (x86_64-bonnell-linux-gnu) * Origin: Little Mikey's EuroPoint - Ladysmith BC, Canada (2:280/464.113) .