loren wilton voxhqbdearthlinknet ok fair enough ive noticed doesnt hurt dash matching question mark equals sign read perlre closely find says never hurts put backslash special character want match character case nothing doesnt hurt ive read perlre perlretut understand regular expressions clear cut way matching characters either outlined document spamassassin document ive come across far part match character appearance character character special meaning needs escaped way easiest way usually backslash cases also making member character class questionmark case could special characters lose meaning character class exceptions obviously right bracket backslash dash becomes special isnt first character koi8r work dont need escape dash im pretty sure dont need escape equal sign questionmark also may want handle uppercase lowercase could koi8ri probably dont need sign get reasonably reliable matching loren tue 05 aug 2008 195441 0800 rule russian character sets