> I haven't troubled myself to search for
> unicode here, though I imagine if one were
> to do that he or she might find some examples of
> scripts that work, or scripts that do with
> solutions to issues posted in the respective
> threads.
I appreciate your delicate sense of sarcasim, but actually I spent several hours going through docs, looking for examples, etc.

It turned out that my problem was that sometimes the editor was opening the file in utf mode and other times as ascii. God only knows how it made it's decision. So it turned out that nothing was making sense and I was chasing my tail.

Thanks for the kind assistance sir chargrill, bargrill or whatever.

Thanks everyone else too. I appreciate the help.

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