Hi Joe,

not really, just spent a lot of time testing software systems. I agree though that the 'Cat should handle smart quotes, and I'm sure Max / Mike are working on it. I've never used SQL server, but if the DBMS defines an alpha field in terms of the normal ascii alpha numeric range, it would throw up when it came across a "smart quote", so you would need to filter input and convert.

Mind you, that would normally give a quite different error message, so I don't know what magic Max is performing when he (I assume) inverts the file entries to allow forum search on the "body" of the message.

Pete M