Oh Gosh, I cannot write the Spanish for 'tomorrow' in Livecode . . . doing the following: set the useUnicode to true set the useUnicode of fld "XYZ" to numToChar(241) should [ a meaty modal verb if ever there was one ] produce an 'n' with a tilde over it; but it doesn't . . . . . .just a daft square . . . :(