>Hi, Peter:
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>While I like the idea of color coding, not that you asked < s>, but "red" usually means "danger" or "warning" to users. IOW, frightens them. Just my .02 U.S.
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>One could always simply add "(required)" to the label if possible with the screen real-estate. Simple/unambigous and more easily localized, I'd imagine.
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>>The way that I have signified mandatory fields in my applications is to make the colour of the label red.

Speaking of localizing, in some countries, white means danger. In earlier times, a black flag meant disease or presence of a plague. Now what color do I use? Danged if you do, danged if you don't. :^)