Just another note on the subject of schwa characters. I got curious about the font question and started looking through my fonts. The font called Times New Roman, a Unicode font, contains both of the schwa characters I posted above. I used the charmap program (Start->Run->charmap) to view the characters and found the characters at U+018F and U+0259 as specified. Below this, I'll simply paste those characters in from my charmap display, without any ampersand coding, and you can see if that makes a difference. If not, you might look to see that your browser is using the Times New Roman font as a default.

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I should note that as I type this post into the Mudcat post box, I see the correct characters I'm pasting even though my typing is displayed in a font I take to be Courier New. My charmap display indicates that Courier New is also a Unicode font and includes the subject characters.

      - Mark