From the 'if nothing else works' department: you can use this syntax for non-ASCII characters: \uXXXX where XXXX is the hex Unicode value of the character. To obtain this you either go to the source and download the code chart from http://www.unicode.org/charts/ or (the easy way) go to this page: http://slayeroffice.com/tools/unicode_lookup/ djn liorean wrote: >> I keep having problems with displaying none international characters >> like å, >> ä and ö. -- Dejan Kozina Dolina 346 (TS) - I-34018 Italy tel./fax: +39 040 228 436 - cell.: +39 348 7355 225 http://www.kozina.com/ - e-mail: dejan at kozina.com