Thanks for that It will not be for Hong Kong and should be Mandarin I need. I will look further into your remarks. Thanks for your help Al
-----Original Message----- Big5 (traditional chinese) and GB (simplified chinese) were called Double-Byte Character Sets, or ANSI. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBCS If you don't need to deal with Traditional Cantonese chinese letters in Hong Kong, then they should be all right for your task. Otherwise, you would want to use Unicode. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/5492C240B10E4B7780EC7C1CDC592D59@gslredacer ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

