Hi Richard

It seems that the problem is being caused by foxfont. There is no £ symbol in this font and ALT+0163 represents an umlaut in foxfont.

Can you tell me how I can stop the darn system from using foxfont - I don't use it. I have looked at all the SET commands and TOOLS/OPTIONS without success. I can see some settings in the registry but am loath to start mucking around with that unless I have to.

This is very frustrating