Carl, The new DELTAGS seems to work fine. But could we have: ' (apostrophe) for ’ ' (apostrophe) for “ ` (reverse apostrophe) for ” I just added this in below the one for the ampersand, and it works: XPLeNCODE v2.0 b-gin [UNTITLED] [BX_]ch ’ '[Q2_]{<}GT01{>};*;[cr|lf][BX_]ch “ `[Q 2_]{<}GT01{>};*;[cr|lf][BX_]ch ” '[Q2_]{<}GT01{>};*;[cr |lf] -nd XPLeNCODE Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx