It seems I have opened now the "Pandora's box" :-) Kyle,
What combination of terminal and editor should be used now? When I'm receiving an ISO-8859-1 message with, for example, the Spanish char á (0xe1 in ISO) and I do a reply then: with xterm (ISO-8859-1) and 'vim' the á is correctly presented as > > á with urxvt (UTF-8) and 'vim' the á is presented as > > á Why is this? I would like tro switch to urxvt (UTF-8) to see/read real UTF-8 messages too; Thanks matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <g...@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/