Karla: You might want to check this link. Easy to understand information. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/genealogy/german-faq/part3/ Umlauts, etc.: ASCII TeX 850 Mac 8859 HTML Postscript Name _____ ___ ___ ___ ____ ____ __________ ____ "A,Ae \"A 142 128 196 Ä Adieresis A umlaut "O,Oe \"O 153 133 214 Ö Odieresis O umlaut "U,Ue \"U 154 134 220 Ü Udieresis U umlaut "a,ae \"a 132 138 228 ä adieresis a umlaut "o,oe \"o 148 154 246 ö odieresis o umlaut "u,ue \"u 129 159 252 ü udieresis u umlaut "s,ss,sz \ss 225 167 223 ß germandbls eszet "y,y,ij \"y 152 216 255 ÿ ydieresis y dieresis "e \"e 137 145 235 ë edieresis e dieresis 850 refers to the IBM code page. IBM code page 437 is identical for these characters, except it lacks the eszet. IBM code page 819 is ISO 8859-1 compliant, while Windows code page 1252 is a ISO 8859-1 superset. All numerical codes shown are decimal. The y dieresis is really a keyboard shortcut for an ij ligature. Kathleen Schilling kschilli@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com