Hopefully John will be able to fix the problem at the server side so that this isn't an issue, but in the interim, this would work. Using the Geany application to convert those special characters only takes a few seconds once you've installed it, so it's not too much of a hassle. Mark I am not sure you answered my question .. at least not directly. To confirm .. each user would run this program on each article they read (assuming they wish to do so). Yes or No?