Bob: Oh, trust me, I have some knowledge on character sets. :) (And for æ, ø, å, é, ö, ... I don't even need to use Alt+<number> codes, as they're already taken care of in the keyboard-layout (which is Danish).)
The problem is that the current database doesn't accept characters outside of US-ASCII (a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and some special characters like punctuation and stuff). (Also, the current message board can't grog message headers with non-US-ASCII characters.) So what I want is to design a new database which will use UTF-8 so that you can freely mix various 'character sets'.