Oh, I see your point. But in my case (using TEXTMERGE to build the message) I think that I will always have a CRLF sequence.

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>>But why wouldn't this work:
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>>lcText = strtran( lcText, chr(13)+chr(10), "%0d%0a" )
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>Because it only converts a CRLF pair into a %0d%0a sequence. It won't convert a CR by itself, a LF by itself or a LFCR pair.