On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:48:24 -0700, Paul Dickson wrote: > How about making the database UTF-8? Let's see how many of you can see these symbol in your Mail User Agent (MAU) (ie your E-mail program). :-) Use the degrees symbol (Â) instead of the words: degree, deg, Deg Greek letters with their symbols included (eg alpha (Î) = 3B1 hex) "integral sign" can supplemented with the symbol â (222B hex) Double aprostrophe (or s) replaced by the seconds symbol â (2033 hex) Single aprostrophe (or m) replaced by the minutes symbol â (2032 hex) These and other symbols can be found at: http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/ -Paul