Dear Laurent, dear listers, Laurent just pointed out that my recent contribution to this thread in its essential part didn't make it to the list, for whatever reasons. Thanks Laurent! Therefore I should like to try again, this time by "escaping" the RTF-code with ">". (I've tested this kind of transmission transmission and it worked for me.) > Here is a RTF text (written in TextEdit) consisting of the single > letter "ΓΌ" (u-Umlaut) and opened as pure text file: ----------------- > { tf1\macnsicpg10000