From: Wolfgang Date: 2006-04-24T06:06:24+09:00 Subject: [QUIZ][no solution but an idea] Hi, I just read the quiz and the solutions an as I had to parse some unicode text I had an idea: why not using "unpack" on the string and getting the number of the character in the code. Then you could also (with some manual code replace a "o" by an � or other similar looking characters. str1="und seine H�hlen" string = str1.unpack('U*') Cheers Wolfgang