Tony Crockford wrote: > Hi > > can anyone point me to a resource that explains in laymens terms the > difference between the two character sets? > > can anyone explain simply how it works and why it is important (apart > from getting past the validator) > Tony, no, I can't explain it, but just stumbled across this URL in general surfing. I haven't read it, but it looks promising, and, if it counts for anything, it's linked from Dive Into Mark. http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/index.html hth, -- Duncan O'Neill The Urban Legend magazine http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~dbaxo/