Not to mention that "character" is fuzzily defined. You might mean:
byte character glyph grapheme .all of which will vary per code page, encoding, etc.... .phsiii (who was trying not to jump in here, but can't stand it) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
