Voilà! It worked. <BR> <BR>Köszönöm!

Very helpful PA. However, for those more interested in (more or less) human sort sequence than computer sort sequence: <BR> <BR>Ä = Alt 142 <BR>Å = Alt 143 <BR>Æ = Alt 146 <BR>â = Alt 131 <BR>ä = Alt 132 <BR>à = Alt 133 <BR>å = Alt 134 <BR>á = Alt 160 <BR>æ = Alt 145 <BR>ç = Alt 135 <BR>É = Alt 144 <BR>é = Alt 130 <BR>ê = Alt 136 <BR>ë = Alt 137 <BR>è = Alt 138 <BR>ƒ = Alt 159 <BR>ï = Alt 139 <BR>î = Alt 140 <BR>ì = Alt 141 <BR>í = Alt 161 <BR>Ñ = Alt 164 <BR>Ö = Alt 153 <BR>ô = Alt 147 <BR>ö = Alt 148 <BR>ò = Alt 149 <BR>ó = Alt 162 <BR>P = Alt 158 <BR>Ü = Alt 154 <BR>ü = Alt 129 <BR>û = Alt 150 <BR>ù = Alt 151 <BR>ú = Alt 163 <BR>ÿ = Alt 152 <BR>¿ = Alt 167 <BR>¢ = Alt 155 <BR>£ = Alt 156 <BR>¥ = Alt 157 <BR>º = Alt 166 <BR>

There were some postings in French earlier this week and it seemed to work out just fine. The thread was about France, foreign languages spoken or not spoken there, and the posters were people who'd been to France or were French or lived in France. anyone who felt like posting in English in response to the French post did so, and the French person then responded in English, though she could have responded in French. It was an easy, appropriate example of mulitilingual posting working pretty well on a particular thread.

Yes, this is an interesting thread. I think people from foreign countries who discover this forum do speak English, otherwise they would not stick to it. As most people have e-mail adresses that cannot be identified, the others do not know where they come from. Sometimes that would be good to know. But in Europe is easy: fr=France, uk=United Kingdom, it=Italy, ch=Switzerland (ch=Confédération Helvétique). I like this forum. It's good for my English. It's also funny to see read what Americans want to know about Europe. But the other way round would probably be the same, I guess. You folks all want to have dinner at the "Jules Verne" at the Eiffel Tower. I lived in Paris and never went there and will never go. And we want to go for the same to the "WOW" in NY. <BR>I can also improve, esp. with abbreviations like ASAP, AFAIK, IMO, etc. The only thing that is definitely difficult are the slang expressions like in every language (in French slang would mean "argot"). <BR>If I would write in German, I would probably have to wait for months to get messages. I will stick to this forum because it's international and I have not found a better one in German, French, English or Italian. Well, maybe www.bparis.com. But it's different, more serious I would say. <BR>Any inputs about equal sites in other languages are welcome. Thanks.

Ursula, don't try TOO hard to learn the acronyms like IMO, IMHO, etc. They're not "standard" written English, and are just a kind of trendy internet slang. (I personally dislike them and would not use them.) It's good to know what they mean, but writing in complete words is just fine.