Hi list, SELECT sum(dureé) FROM files; My parser fails on the é in the query, as I hadn't treated it as a valid character before now, but re-reading the docs on MySQL column names, as long as the name is valid in your filesystem, it will be accepted by MySQL. This means I need a way to match all accented characers to check for them in an SQL identifier. I put together a simple function that I thought should work, but it was for the windows character range, not iso-8559-1. Could somebody fix my PMA_STR_isAccented in libraries/string.lib.php3? I am also wondering if the character set that MySQL is using needs to be known to use the correct characters for matching accented stuff ? Could our character set people enlighten me on this please? -- Robin Hugh Johnson E-Mail : robbat2(a)orbis-terrarum.net Home Page : http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/?l=people.robbat2 ICQ# : 30269588 or 41961639