Hi Rex,

I didn't mean to suggest that you had to use exactly the ASCII characters that I used, so much as that I've noticed smart quotes (and the ASCII characters that supply them) seem to cause some problems when you're interoperating with various applications that are, er, less capable than Fox (no matter how much they cost <g>).

What I've done (with code like the example I put in my message to you) is just provided a place to whisk away whatever characters are found to provide that sort of problem and then add to the #DEFINEs as needed.

Please note that I probably suggested CHRTRAN(), not STRTRAN() as in your reply, since they do very different things. To do this correctly you should map single bad characters each to a known, single-character replacement, using two #DEFINEs and CHRTRAN(). STRTRAN() for other problems separately.

>L<