;-) Clearing the snow from my glasses, I saw Pete Joules typed: Was ist los??? Sprechen Sie keine Deutsch??? Na ja, *Ich* spreche ein bi?chen Deutsch... Pete, the language you use (english, german (for the example above) etc.) was not Roger's point. His point is this: In your native tongue, if you cannot express yourself with plain text (whichever encoding you require) then HTML won't help you. Period. Granted, my German is quite rusty & slow, so I do prefer to communication to this list using English, but if others were to post in German I would not have a problem with it. As this is an American list, tho, it would prolly be good manners for foriegn language posters to put a [Deutsch] or whatever language you posted with in the subject of the message. AFAIK, Bill Whitson (the owner of the list) has not ruled out multi-language messages, provided they're on topic. Zip. That was the sound of my mouth zipping shut on this matter. All else will be privatized. See ya, "Merch" -- Roger Merchberger | If at first you don't succeed, Owner, MerchWare | nuclear warhead disarmament should zmerch(a)northernway.net | *not* be your first career choice.