Javier writes:
> > % Here is a very small test document which may or may not survive
> > % if the current document is transfered from one place to the
> > % other.
> [...]
> > German umlauts in UTF-8: äöü
it seems they have made it properly to Spain and back :-)
> And since the files has been included in the message body and
> therefore they are transcoded by the e-mail clients, here
> is a TeX version: ^^c3^^a4^^c3^^b6^^c3^^bc.
thanks yes, i should have put it into the document that way
> Any ideas about how to ignore BOMs?
BOMs? as in www.bom.com? sorry for being ignorant
frank