> But we are lucky: ansinew and latin1 are compatible, in the sens that > latin1 is a subset of ansinew (there are 24 extra characters in ansinew, > in the 130--159 range), Not at all. In latin1, character in the range 130--159 are assigned to control characters (and hence they are not free), and Unix editors may use them. Further, a character in the ASCII range (I have not the tables at hands, but IIRC is right single quote) has been reassigned in ansinew. Regards Javier ______________________________________________________________________________ Consigue tu cuenta de correo universal y gratuita en http://webmail.wanadoo.es