hi: I have read your answer about a mailbox name which mixes English ,Japanese and Chinese . but how can i decode the BASE64 to Chinese . i have used your function base64decode() but the answer is not correct, for example i decode "g0l6Pw" i got "�Iz" but the right answer is "草稿"(means "draft"), and i use the function base64encode() to encode the word "草稿" the answer is "st245Q==". my client is outlook. thank you. wzy 2.14