Subj : pesky moose and squirrel To : mark lewis From : Maurice Kinal Date : Sat Jul 06 2019 06:09 pm Hallo mark! ml> the screenshot is how it is in my message base, though Understood. I realize that many (most?) will see the characters in question in their two byte forms, with the characters presented to them within their native codepage, cp437 in your case. The important thing is that whenever there is a 0x8d character it shouldn't ever get deleted. Het leven is goed, Maurice .... Huil niet om mij, ik heb vi. --- GNU bash, version 5.0.7(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) * Origin: Little Mikey's EuroPoint - Ladysmith BC, Canada (2:280/464.113) .