reply to myself: > look at this snapshot I just took and see that while the original is koi8-r, > TB! > [Or moi] switched to 1251
1252, and anyway, I see that the AB had a charset of Windows Cyrillic, perhaps from the continual testing I was doing .... an un-remembered byproduct ... noting I now have it set to koi8-r for the hell of it -- Regards, Robert D. :flag-us-ky: _________________________ The Bat! Version: 3.64.01 Christmas Edition Windows ME FireFox ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.64.01 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html