this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction! However, I'm still unable to make it work. When you pointed out the hex representation to me, it turned on the light and now I know I can paste those characters in multi edit and look at it in hex mode if I'm not exactly sure what a character is. This one is "ED" as you said. So here are the things I have tried, nothing works, so I am doing something wrong. Perhaps I should give in to the tricky spamsters and let this go but I hate to do that.
*I tried this based on what Justin said /pen[\xCC-\xCF\xEC-\xEF]s|p3n[\xCC-\xCF\xEC-\xEF]s/ and as david suggested I tried it with just the character in question /\í/ /\xED/ none of these are picking it up. Wondering if I am formatting this wrong. jennifer ________________________________________________________________________ ___ If you use backslashed escape codes it should work -- e.g. man iso_8859_1 notes these i chars: 314 204 CC <CC> LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE 315 205 CD <CD> LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE 316 206 CE <CE> LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX 317 207 CF <CF> LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS 354 236 EC <EC> LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE 355 237 ED <ED> LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE 356 238 EE <EE> LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX 357 239 EF <EF> LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS so [\xCC-\xCF\xEC-\xEF] should catch all those. (in ISO-8859 charsets at least.) Basically, \xNN where NN is the hex representation. --j. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk