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> >I have a clinet that sends/receives email to an x.400 system in germany.
> >They are currently setup with compuserve.  The email attachments tha they
> >receive are all ok, but all the special german characters (eg. "u" with 2
> >dots above it, umlaut?), print as blank characters.  Is there a german
> >pop3 client out there that runs on win95?

Printing out as "blank" characters usually implies a missing font. If
the mapping was "bad", you would get replaced but different characters.
For example, the familiar "strip the 8:th bit" remapping of "�"
(a-umlaut) comes out "d" if you used the ISO-8859-1 ("Latin-1")
character set and the 0xe4 code got bit-stripped down to 0x64.

When you say "print" do you mean "display on the screen" or "print on
paper"? Have you tried both? Sometimes, if it's a font problem, the one
will work better than the other.

Anyway, you probably don't want a German-specific pop client. You want
to make sure your entire mail path can cope with extended characters,
either by MIME encoding them (7-bit safe) or by having a full 8-bit
transparent path. Both would be available in any decent "international"
package. THEN you have to make sure your local system is set up to
actually show these characters. Can you examine one of the received
files in some kind of HEX editor to see what codes are actually stored
at those positions? If the stored characters are in the "upper" half of
the character table, it's almost certain your problem is in the fonts.

/Torsten