<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Thank you. That seems to work well. Plus it works on a laptop unlike Microsoft's method of holding down the ALT key and typing out the decimal value with the numpad. Add a point for linux.   >> Is there a trick to this dialog that I don't know? or is there an >> alternate manner of entering special characters? The windows >> equivalent allows the user to enter the unicode value for the >> character but I don't see anything like that here. > >If you know the hexadecimal "Unicode number" of the character, you can >use Ctrl+Shift+U, then enter the hexadecimal number, followed by space >or return. > <hr />The best games are on Xbox 360. Click here for a special offer on an Xbox 360 Console. <a href='http://www.xbox.com/en-US/hardware/wheretobuy/' target='_new'>Get it now!</a></body> </html>