diacriticals

environment: Online 7.13+ Wyse 50 terminal emulation Using dbaccess, I can't seem to set a varchar field to characters with diacriticals, like =E9 for example. The vi editor displays the characters in escaped octal (looks like). Using =20 What's interesting - I can create a text file with the diacriticals using a Windows editor and then load the text file into a temp table, and then update the actual field in an existing table from the temp table. It looks like the editors and interfaces (like dbaccess) are getting in the way. The database will store (and display) the diacritical characters. Has anyone else dealt with this problem and found it solvable or unsolvable? We are developing a front end with Power Builder and would like to pass PB the characters in question as part of an update statement. TIA for your help, Nick ********************* Nick Nobbe NLS/BPH Library of Congress nnob@loc.gov