No offense taken. We share the same sensibilities and sensitivities with respect to non-English, Latin-script text in software and computing. As I explained, my inquiry here was the result of my wanting to take extra care to handle correctly some statistically nominal text in my data. I went to more trouble than the average American programmer would go to save the lives of a couple of euro signs. (Now I've offended somebody. :-)

Cheers!

Jim