(We're losing characters in the UT parser here...)

You should put the word "File" in cOriginal as
F{Backspace}{LessThan}ile

INTL works as follows
1. Accept the string, in this case "F{Backspace}{LessThan}ile"
2. Take note of shortcuts
3. Lookup the word without shortcuts (this is what NoHot() does).
4. Return the found word, stripping out shortcuts that were not originally present.

So I bet that you have the word "File", not "F{Backspace}{LessThan}ile", in the cOriginal field.



>>> x= I("Sir, do you think I could drive this zamboni sometime?")
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>Interesting... And thanks...
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>I have another question for you regarding I(). I am currently setting up a system in Chinese using double-byte character configuration. In this system they use File({Backspace}{LessThan}F), instead of our usual "{Backspace}{LessThan}File" for hot-keying a menu item. I traced the I() program and watched the code strip out the hot-keys. I noticed it then SEEK'd the entry and then replaced the hot-key. For some reason my system is not replacing the hot-key where there are two entries in my strings table.
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>For example, my table has entries of "File" and "{Backspace}{LessThan}File". And when the program calls I("{Backspace}{LessThan}File"), "File" is returned.
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>Any hints??? Are there any updates to this philosophy or is this still your preferred method of locating the strings?
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>TIA
>Michael