Rob Mount > Q1: Can a character be both alphabetic and diacritic? I would say yes. My understanding of the "Lm" general category is: "a diacritic letter".
> Q2: Is there a difinitive answer as to whether this is an alphabetic > character? Strictly speaking, as katakana and hiragana are not alphabets, their letters cannot be called "alphabetic". But I guess that you mean "alphabetic" is the sense that isalpha() should return TRUE for it, i.e. in the sense that it is a character used to write *words* in the orthography of some language. In this sense, yes, IMHO: isalpha() should return true for all the characters having general category "L...". _ Marco
