note guha <code>$user_name = &englify( substr($first_name, 0, 2) . substr($last_name, 0, 2) ); </code> <p>The imaginary englify function maps accented and other foreign characters to the most similar character in the &#91;a-z&#93; character class. ;-] </p> --- <p> You are what you is. -- FZ</p> 192858 192858