G'day Joe Offer and Jerry Friedman,

I've been meaning to try this out and the discussion of accenting words jogs me along. I have a printout of the full 256 character ASCII set for a standard font (printed from FontSee - a shareware app that was around a while back). This gives the ALT codes to type any character, for instance e acute is (ALT Key plus) 0233 - é and a grave is (ALT Key plus) 0224 - à.

I have a full sheet of all 256 codes slipped in the shelf near the computer and an abbreviated 'cheat sheet' of the most useful characters hanging in front of me.

Of course, all this pales into insignificance compared to what I had to do a little while back - create a set of OHP slides - bilingual - English / Vietnamese, using a couple of Vietnamese language TrueType fonts ... Do you know how many accents the Vietnamese have???? Every damned character in the second half of the ASCII set, bar two ... 126 accent combinations!!!!

Regards,

Bob Bolton