Funny how things get screwed up when posted from one system and read at the other end by another. I use Mac, the accents look right on my screen. I recently tested the acute accent with çine here at Mudcat, and the ones that looked OK to me she said looked fine to her. Occasionally, both my own posts and those of others come out with silly things like the ª sign for an apostrophe, but I thought for the most part they worked fine. I have three choices for making the diacritical marks: cut and paste from previous posts within the mudcat thread; insert the accented letters from the symbol command at Word 5; or use the Mac keyboard commands for the various accents (the commands for Word 5 for Mac also work -- at least on this end -- for posting on the net.

Anyway, if the posts didn't come out with the proper marks, perhaps a clone can fix them -- or maybe I can tomorrow, from down San Diego way.

Genie