>>>>Hi all,
>>Hi Koen,
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>>Close: that gives an "s" with an upside down carat on it. I tried to find the one with the accent instead (bottom left to top right sloping accent). I looked in Word as I have used that before and it shows it as O15B (which some online web pages did) - how do I translate that to a numeric value that works with CHR()?
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>>Thanks,
>>Albert
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>Did you find that accent s in msWord?
>Than you can see in msWord its ASCII value, look at the right bottom combobox here you can choose UNICODE (hex), ASCII (hex) or ASCII (decimal) in the textbox left you can find the equivalent.
>Please note that this sign, accented s, is not in every font. Arial e.g. does not have it.

Yes it does, it's a Unicode font. But not in 1252, i.e. when you have a non-unicode app showing codepage 1252. You have to set it to cp 1250 (either set the .fontcharset=238, or set the codepage for non-unicode apps to 1250 on the whole machine... or was it for per user?).