>Hi Hilmar
>Thanks for your suggestion.
>
>Unfotunately, I have been given a spec with a particular LIST of characters to eliminate and must stick to this.
>
>There must be somewhere I can get a list of all characters and their Ascii equivalent ?
Look at the character map in Windows (run "charmap"), and select an appropriate font, such as Times New Roman.
You will get numeric values for the unusual characters; for others, you may have to extrapolate them (they are in sequence).
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