Hi Joe,

If what you want is to display this in a grid. In your select statement you can call the field whatever you want. It doesn't have to have any special characters. Then when displaying the field in the grid assign the .column1.controlsource = ' your_cursor.fldname' & .column1.header1.caption = " àçùéè " This is what I do when I have to display French on the screen.

HTH
Mike