On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, gooliver wrote: > i.e. ALT + 133 (from keypad) You are confused. This has nothing to do with "escape sequences". It is one way of writing character 133 = x85 of code page 850. http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/PC/CP850.TXT You should get rid of this archaic MS-DOS way of writing. Write alt+0224 to get character 224 = xE0 of code page 1252. http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/MICSFT/WINDOWS/CP1252.TXT -- Top-posting. What's the most irritating thing on Usenet?