In response to Peggy's earlier post: At Go.com the y have a excellent translator from Systran Software that allows you to type in the accented (umlauts) characters appropriate for the language you are translating. In the upper right corner of the box in which you type/paste your "article" it says accented characters, click on it and it gives simple instructions for Macintosh (me) and Windows programs. http://translator.go.com/ I stumbled across this a while back at think it's great! Jennifer Ann Bessire Harvey researching: BESSIRE of Pery, Bern, Switzerland Tufly of Klosters, Graubunden, Switzerland