Sorry for not having tested on a newer version. I am currently working offline due to bandwidth restrictions. Please ignore if already fixed. I am using GNU Emacs 20.3 I have observed two problems when using agent: 1) when I enter the nndraft:queue group I see those ugly \201's. If I edit one of the articles there, the \201 will temporarily go away in this article after reposting it. 2) when I post online, the Content-Type header is fine (iso-8859-1). In the agent queue the CT header is still fine. But when I look at my own posts after having uploaded them, the charset is suddenly changed to us-ascii. Weird. You can probably see the result in this post. Bjørn .