From: Hickman Hickman Date: 2007-11-17T09:58:18+09:00 Subject: Letters with accent marks Any ideas? I have a textBox that users will be entering data into and most likely they will not bother to write the accent marks over the correct letters. When performing the search I need a way to look at the words in the database and say does it have a accent mark over it and if so ignore it and render it as a, e, i, o, u. I tried to copy and paste these letters with accent marks into the file but the program doesnt recognize them. Any idea how to test for i with an accent mark, a with an accent mark, etc... -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.