"Paul Giaccone" <paulg@cinesite.co.uk> wrote in message news:44323C3B.7040503@cinesite.co.uk... FWIW These characters are rendered quite strangely in my (Western European?) version of this message. They may be rendered differently for others so I provided a description ë, A followed by two tiny left braces ö A followed by a reversed capital P with the round bit filled in ü A followed by a 1/4 é A followed by a (C) ä A followed by a round sunny symbol Å A followed by three dots ç A followed by two S's or squiggly snakes æ A followed by an split vertical bar ñ A followed by a +- sign ø , A followed by a squiggle at the foot ð A followed by the symbol for degrees(small circle near the top) I'm guessing they are rendered differently for the authors ? regards Andy Little