Thank you all, the problem was indeed the fact that we copy-pased our data from Word in the database. Replacing the curly quotes solved the problem.

Frederik
>On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 09:39, Burns, John wrote:
>> Rob,
>>
>> What range would these "invalid MS word characters" fall into?
>
>I believe they actually map to control characters IIRC
>
>"...
>* Long dashes
>* Curly single quotes
>* Trademark symbol
>True Type fonts in Microsoft Windows systems use a superset of ISO
>Latin-1 to get these special characters. In basic Latin-1, the numeric
>characters 128-159 are left open, but Windows systems use them to create
>custom characters that usually are only visible on Windows operating
>systems - and even there, display isn't always consistent. ..."
>- some google page
>
>--
>Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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