note Anonymous Monk <p><i>As down the track I am sure I will want to replace things like ä with a etc as well.</i></p> <p>That doesn't sound like a good idea. ä is a letter in some languages, not just "a with diacritic". Writing a name without the "diacritic" could be downright wrong. (Yes, sports broadcasts frequently do it that way, but that doesn't mean you should.) Do you really need to pare <em>all</em> of your text down to 7-bit ASCII?</p> 1015956 1015956 3