Fri May 20 09:05:53 EDT 2005 rsc Those lines are there on purpose. They give the textual representation of the control characters instead of the canonical funny pictures. I added them to be consistent with the lucidasans and pelm unicode fonts. In theory the following lines should say 0x0020 0x00FF 0x20 9x18B.0000 but they way they are is fine too. Russ