standard as it aught to be, or your setup is missing a DLL for charset conversion. There was a thread about charsets roughly half a year ago, have a look in the archives. http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/ has one file per month, and http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users.mbox/ has a single mbox file of the whole archive. HTH //Samuel