michael hutchinson ylwyrpjpsfrmanuxconz original message 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 id setup originally except ran past interpreter results wrong think would work however testing virtual machine today sure 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 ah bit unsure limiting many characters escaped would tend towards fully escaped one wouldnt trust nonescaped signs thats probably got bad history spamassassin thanks reinforcing points needed cheers mike thu 07 aug 2008 045818 1300 rule russian character sets