Let me clarify. I'm not committed to AskSam--it's just that I haven't found any database that does the same job, and we(Susan and I) find it very useful in dealing with submissions that are really duplicates (or very-close relatives) of existing entries.

My main concern, though, with Cyrillic Characters, or accents grave, or any of the non-ASCII characters, is that the person searching for a song doesn't have a simple way of entering, say, Zoé.

I seem to recall that postal services have established ASCII equivalents to these special character sets---if so it would behoove us to use them. I'm sorry if I'm being Anglocentric, but, in reality, that's what I am---in the company of a vast number of people who search the DT.