On the topic of northern European languages, I was reminded of the "u" in Jürgen and such. My family name was originally written like this: http://rjs.org/genealogy/schumacher.gif (from granpa's birth certificate) but I don't really know what the proper modern unicode character is... (?) Ray ============================================================ This is the Python Mailinglist at freelists.org Listmaster: Jürgen Mages jmages@xxxxxx To unsubscribe send an empty mail to python-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field. ============================================================