Hej August!

 AA> I thought kludges were otherwise known as control paragraphs and 
 AA> not displayed as part of the body.

You are correct, except they are still part of the msg_body and not the msg_header, or at least in the packed msg this is so.  How your particular application handles them on the local displey is up to your application but the msg_body shouldn't be messed with as far as altering them is concerned.  As you have clearly demonstrated with the 8-bit encodings (eg CP437), this isn't always the case and bad things can and do happen.

You can now hang your head in shame.  :-)

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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